Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

Londoners prepare for war.

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

“Musical performers Henry Hall and his Orchestra hog the limelight in this promotional film, ostensibly for Ascot gas water heaters.” -...

The laying of underground telephone cables.

The administrator of an abandoned coffee farm and inveterate gambler saves money to buy the property, even knowing of the loving connections between...

The first behind-the-scenes documentary in the film industry, from the making of a camera (Debrie) to studio shooting and directing, including...

The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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

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This first film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play about class distinctions was made in 1955 in the Vienna Rosenhügel studios, but it was...

In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's...

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

A portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the National Film Board in 1939. Interweaving archival...

The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.

Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are...

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...

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