Michael Balcon Movies

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife...

This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different...

An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals.

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

Concerns a young woman who embarks on a series of love affairs. Originally around 100 minutes, only a 23 minute, 9.5mm cut-down version is known to...

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

A comedy short directed by W.P. Kellino.

A jealous agent uses a girl singer to break up a double act.

British war documentary

Game warden Bob Payton (Anthony Steel) tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the Zanzibar territory.

Take your seat for an Armistice concert by military bands playing a medley of songs commonly sung during WWI.

'1820. Officer frames colleague when gambler forces him to steal secrets.' (British Film Catalogue)

A marooned sailor and his stowaway sister-in-law are rescued by her husband.