Bill Forsyth Movies

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as...

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of...

A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.

Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils...

Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the...

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between...

Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."

The industries of the Scottish Highlands.

The life and work of the Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless...

A look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'. Chris Menges discusses his early career in...

Highland boat-building, showing intermediate processes of clinker- and carvel built boats, as well as those involved in ferroconcrete and steel...

A documentary profile of three Scottish screenwriters: Edward Boyd, Gordon Williams and Alan Sharp.

A young would-be writer searches the street of Glasgow for his missing girlfriend.

The scenery and wildlife around Loch Lomond, Scotland, and the people who live and work there.

A tour of the landscape and wildlife of the Western Isles in Scotland.

An interview for Scottish television of film director Bill Forsyth

A portrait of the Scottish artist Sir William Gillies.