Movies

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...

Documentary about the construction of tlephone lines.

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

Le P'tite Lili is a short film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1927. This is a visual illustration of a song, The Lady of gravel and Benech Lilie,...

“The rolling hills and wide valleys of the Chilterns are given centre stage in this travelogue aimed at boosting tourism … The Chilterns...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings about transatlantic telecommunications.

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military...

British war documentary

A young man who loves his wife wants rid of his troublesome mistress. He dresses up as a wealthy Brazilian and seduces her in a jiffy. He hopes to...

Captures the role played by the Royal Navy in the defence of Britain, and their role in convoy escort.

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

A British documentary