Basil Wright Filmes

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

Short documentary about British education in the late 1930s.

An overview of the shepherd's life during the lambing season.

Focuses upon the journey of child refugees from the Basque Country to temporary accommodation near Southampton, Hampshire [England].

Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a...

Early documentary, slung together from footage depicting the first invasion of North America by Europeans, designed to show industrial technology's...

Experimental documentary focusing on a day in the life of city workers, featuring montage sequences and repetition to emphasise the monotony of...

The history of Scotland and the factors that have shaped the character of its people.

A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.

A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.

A portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the National Film Board in 1939. Interweaving archival...

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

Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, this documentary about "Laurel and Hardy", one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double...

A housewife galvanises her docker husband to take an interest in more important matters than the football pools.

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

A short documentary to demonstrate what can be done with Technicolor film and to show various other colourful products.

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

Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II.

Weiss’s classic B&W agitprop short made after his escape to London just ahead of the Nazis. He carried with him three reels of material for his...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at an exhibition of Da Vinci's drawings at Burlington House in London, marking the quincentenary of his...