Movies

The operation of a floating sea fort during WWII, and the lives of those who work on board.

The production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp, and a brief dramatised history of the development of the penny...

Spare Time is a 1939 British film directed by Humphrey Jennings for the GPO Film Unit, and made for the 1939 New York World's Fair. It is 15 minutes...

How long-distance telephone calls are made, from the UK to the USA. We see operators, miles of wires, and the amplification of voice transmitted...

A French-language Free French propaganda short made in wartime London: Germaine Sablon performs three resistance songs—most notably the first...

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

Literary adaptation: A female musician in Asia's tropics escapes from harassers' advances to an island where a timid man has retreated. Later when 3...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

The first behind-the-scenes documentary in the film industry, from the making of a camera (Debrie) to studio shooting and directing, including...

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

A compilation tracing the history of realist cinema from its beginnings to World War II. Divided into five parts, it covers the development of...

Londoners prepare for war.

British war documentary