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The desire for wartime propaganda created a renaissance in the film industry in Britain, with realistic war dramas like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), Went the Day Well?

( 1942 ), The Way Ahead ( 1944 ) and Noël Coward and David Lean's celebrated naval film In Which We Serve in 1942, which won a special Academy Award.

These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).