Videos & Films

Some wonderful films and videos which are set in Coastal Forces…

Videos and Films – and YouTube

In October 2026 we made the decision to launch a YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@CoastalForces-HTwhere we plan to make available a collection of interviews with World War 2 Coastal Forces veterans recorded in the 1990s and early 2000s. Some of those films are also available to Friends of Coastal Forces as DVDs. Uploading takes time…

So far, the following are amongst the material on our YouTube channel:

There are also some wonderful films and videos which are set in the Coastal Forces community.  Not all of these are ‘free to view’ – generally the feature films can be purchased online with some available on streaming sites. 

Feature Films

Hell Boats

An American Commander is assigned in 1942 to a Royal Navy Motor Torpedo Boat flotilla based in HMS GREGALE in Malta. A great story of the support given by Coastal Forces to the invasion of Sicily.

https://watch.plex.tv/en-GB/movie/hell-boats

The Ship that Died of Shame

Made in 1955, this is the story of a Second World War Motor Gun Boat, and her wartime crew, who succumb to the demobilised lure of easy black market money. The link takes you to a trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwXCCdWhKHA

Information Films

The Broad Fourteens

A wonderful British propaganda film made in 1945, but never released to the public due to the war ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzJDVhuMaI8&t=11s

The Fighting Sea Fleas

A Canadian production focussed on the RCN Coastal Forces contribution to battles in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gNSBZT2Tt8&t=35s

The Little Ships of England

A 1943 British propaganda film that tells the story of the Royal Navy’s smallest ships in battle with the Germans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPUQnJ1Eoic

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