Leslie Mitchell Movies

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.

A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her

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Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie...

Newsreels from the '30s constitute the bulk of this fascinating documentary, clearly illustrating that the public was fed an extremely biased view of...

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...

In this feature-length documentary from 1976, Leslie Mitchell and special guests recall the birth of BBC Television forty years before.

The story of a husband's implication in his wife's death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a...

Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.

Publicity film for manufacturers and retailers of television equipment. A survey of the programmes transmitted by the British Broadcasting...

Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps...

A look at the facilities and character of Oxford University, and the varied experiences that are associated with studying there.

On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb. Locals heard a roar, followed by the earth shaking, the walls of clay houses...

Brief summary of the Berlin airlift taken from newsreel material.

Highlights from the Farnborough Airshow of 1952.

A documentary about the Penlee Lifeboat and her crew, based around the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole.

In this film, specially taken for the BBC, viewers are given an idea of the growth of the television installation at Alexandra Palace and an insight...

In 1951, the 3rd French expedition to the Himalayas set out to conquer Nanda Devi (7,800 m). The attempt to cross the ridge between the main peak and...

Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II.

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