Basil Wright Movies

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

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

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

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

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

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

Short documentary about British education in the late 1930s.

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

A Defeated People is a 1946 British documentary short film made by the Crown Film Unit, directed by Humphrey Jennings and narrated by William...

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

Rainbow Dance is a 1936 British animated film released by the GPO Film Unit. This is Lye's second film. It uses the Gasparcolor process.

Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece.

A 1940 black and white film, production sponsored by the Colonial Empire Marketing Board. 'The East African colonies are introduced as...

In a bid to encourage city-dwellers to leave behind the restrictions of war, 'The Green Girdle' escapes from the austere urban landscape of...

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

The story of a ship's arrival, unloading and departure from the Port of London in 1951, and all the life of the docklands and the river. Made for the...

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

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

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

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