‘The Winslow Boy:’ A Family’s Fight for Justice

This Edwardian drama is about courageously standing for what is right.

Sir Robert Morton (Robert Donat) and Catherine Winslow (Margaret Leighton), in “The Winslow Boy.” British Lion Films

NR | 1h 57m | Drama | 1950

Few courtroom dramas like “The Winslow Boy” have managed to make Edwardian decorum feel this alive or this amusingly British. The story may center on a boy accused of a petty crime, but it ripples outward. It challenges the entire notion of fairness, the kind that stretches back to the Magna Carta itself.