Rent A Year to Remember: 1955 (1955)

This was a year of triumph and tragedy. Donald Campbell became the fastest man on water and Stirling Moss became the first British driver to win the Mille Miglia. And when that great sports car event, the Le Mans 24-hour race, opened in brilliant sunshine, none of the quarter-million crowd suspected what lay ahead. In a few ghastly seconds, death wiped out whole families. It was also a year which saw the resignation of Winston Churchill from the government,the last execution of a woman in Britain, and the signing of the Warsaw Pact.