Stuart Legg

Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.

Shows new methods in treating those afflicted with mental health issues. Contrasts past treatment regimes where people were locked away out of sight w...

A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and ...

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases.

A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications ...

Britain's part in the emergence of air travel is followed from the Wright brothers to the De Havilland Comet.

A documentary looking at the British Government's atomic weapons design, construction and testing on the Australian Monte Bello Islands in 1951.

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Harwell's nuclear research establishment and the peaceful applications of atomic energy.

A BAFTA special award nominated documentary following the post-war construction of an immense oil refinery near Manchester in the UK.

Commissioned by the Festival of Britain to show the similarities and contrasts between 1851 and 1951, by means of the Great Exhibition and the Festiva...

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Documentary short about how Britain is improving after WWII and what the populace can do to help.

Spotlight on the Colonies places particular emphasis on the economic benefits that continued investment and development within the colonies will provi...

An explanation of what is involved in the devaluation of sterling.

Examines contemporary educational methods and policies in the light of an age that has released new natural energies, to be used for or against mankin...

The end of WWII has brought much hardship to Western Europe, especially in the area of food security and availability. The war has wiped out much of E...

Made at the end of WWII, this documentary looks at Britain's post-war period. During a time of economic hardship, Prime Minister Winston Churchill is ...

Short film produced and directed in 1945 for the National Film Board of Canada series The World in Action. Over its nearly 21-minute running time, cir...

Account of the development of air transport during wartime and a review of issues to be solved in regulating international civil aviation.

This short film focuses on the period between World War I and World War II when France was struck by riots, strikes and economic stress. During the wa...

Propaganda short about the allied landing in France.

Canadian documentary on war time Italy.

Propaganda short about the Second World War.

This wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression.

Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.

This short film examines the Japan that emerged at the beginning of the 1900s and was firmly established as an industrialized nation by the outbreak o...

The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Li...

This short WWII propaganda documentary drives home the point that steel and committed steel workers can make the difference between winning and losing...

This short documentary about the Canadian seamen who manned Canada's eastern ports during WWII is the first film in the Canada Carries On series. The ...

The first film ever distributed by the NFB, The Case of Charlie Gordon focuses on an unemployed young Canadian who has never held a job. In the late '...

Not by any means a truly comprehensive scientific study, this film nevertheless conveys in a popular fashion facts as to the development and habits of...

This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries.

A playful and affectionate look at London Zoo and the people and animals who make up its daily life.

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.

Sharjah airport in the 1930's showing the airport, town, Emirate and Imperial Airways staff. An early British documentary produced by many pioneers of...

Two case studies highlighting the work of the National Council of Social Service: the conversion of a barn into a village hall in South Cerney, Glouce...

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnigh...

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have children;...

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have children;...

A short GPO documentary showing how undersea telephone cables are repaired.

A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges.

A record of an educational experiment in the small town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire.

Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a full-r...

A Cambridge student takes the blame for his gambling brother.