1940's Flashbacks (2003)

A whistle stop tour of architecture, music, cars, films, places, politics, fashion, furniture, holidays and sport from the 1940's. Archive footage includes: The London Blitz, the Swing music era, Atlee government, Sir Winston Churchill, Nylon stockings, Henry Ford, the rebuilding of major UK cities, utilities furniture, the first post-war holiday boom in Brighton and a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, the finest director of the decade, with 'Rope'.