British Council Movies

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to...

A documentary on modern British farming.

Rufus is a child with an extraordinary obsession: a burning, inþamed desire for anything red. Driven by this impassioned, scarlet fixation,...

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together...

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.

The manufacture of cables for transmitting electric power is shown. Copper bars are rolled and drawn into wire, which is twisted into strands, and...

Butt-sniffing action abounds as five otherwise ordinary members of the public get in touch with their primal instincts.

Miranda's Letter takes as a starting point the 'missing women' in Shakespeare, in this instance, The Tempest, and imagines what Miranda's mother...

'Divided We Scroll' is an eerie depiction of our intimate relationships with technology.

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making and broadcasting of pedagogical radio shows on the BBC.

A documentary feature with Basil Spence explaining, with the aid of a model, the concepts behind the design of the new Coventry Cathedral to replace...

As part of the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the...

Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer.

A stately film about the history of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, with a focus on the architecture and individuals buried there, and the...

British documentary on how the community of Ulster got converted to war times.

An overview of the free healthcare available for children, and the environmental improvements that led to increased public well-being in Britain.

An introduction to the famous and historic university town, showing the colleges, as well as the place itself.

A documentary on the English language and it's origins.

Britain's check to the German drive for world domination. The Ministry of Information requested that the film should be withdrawn as it was...