Michael Balcon Movies

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

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.

An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

American documentary film-maker George C. Stoney visits the Aran Islands to try and unravel some of the myths surrounding a film that had engrossed...

A day following workers at an airport

Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a...

Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the...

During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating...

A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander...

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...

'Newsreel cameramen wrest secret papers from Chinese bandit.' (British Film Catalogue)

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

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

A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a...

A comedy short directed by W.P. Kellino.

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

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...

Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations....