Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

A one-eyed businessman wants to become rich and retrieve his lost eye at any cost. He tries many schemes, and eventually regains his eye with a...

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

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...

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

A New York music-hall actress lives in a miserable loveless marriage. After a violent scene, the man leaves her, taking their baby and leaving it...

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...

A British documentary

Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family.

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...

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...

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...