Stuart Legg Movies

Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...

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

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

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Made at the end of WWII, this documentary looks at Britain's post-war period. During a time of economic hardship, Prime Minister Winston Churchill is...

The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with...

This short film examines the Japan that emerged at the beginning of the 1900s and was firmly established as an industrialized nation by the outbreak...

Commissioned by the Festival of Britain to show the similarities and contrasts between 1851 and 1951, by means of the Great Exhibition and the...

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

Shows new methods in treating those afflicted with mental health issues. Contrasts past treatment regimes where people were locked away out of sight...

This wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression.

A wartime documentary following Canadian convoy operations and naval escort duties in the North Atlantic during the early years of World War II.

A dramatized documentary portraying youth unemployment and state-supported training initiatives in 1930s Canada.

Sharjah airport in the 1930's showing the airport, town, Emirate and Imperial Airways staff. An early British documentary produced by many pioneers...

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.

Account of the development of air transport during wartime and a review of issues to be solved in regulating international civil aviation.

Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a...

This short WWII propaganda documentary drives home the point that steel and committed steel workers can make the difference between winning and...

A brief history of paper followed by a look at the manufacturing process in a paper mill in Markinch, Scotland.