Michael Balcon Movies

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

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.

Summer 1939, and an ordinary family gets an alarming taste of war to come.

Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an...

The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get...

Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years...

In the Kentucky hills a store keeper tries to win the love of an innocent schoolteacher. She runs away and seeks refuge with a hermit. A lost film.

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary...

A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

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

A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.

A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to...

A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought...

A young man is shocked to discover that his fiancé is the mistress of his mother's lover.

British war documentary