Movies

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

Adaptation for TV of the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A very rich old lady arrives in her nearly bankrupt native village. She is ready to come to...

Documentary on savings

A nurse falls in love with her patient and secretly marries him. When treating another patient, he falls in love with her and, pretending to be in...

The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

This first film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play about class distinctions was made in 1955 in the Vienna Rosenhügel studios, but it was...

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.

The administrator of an abandoned coffee farm and inveterate gambler saves money to buy the property, even knowing of the loving connections between...

Where he goes, he doesn't need luggage... A very talkative traveler settles in the only wagon occupied by a man with a strange diction. The train is...

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

This film is based on actual letters German soldiers sent home from the siege of Leningrad during World War II. The litany of trouble these poor...

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

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.

“Musical performers Henry Hall and his Orchestra hog the limelight in this promotional film, ostensibly for Ascot gas water heaters.” -...

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

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

How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent...