Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

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.

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

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

The life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged, the rich and the poor.

British war documentary

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

Literary adaptation: A female musician in Asia's tropics escapes from harassers' advances to an island where a timid man has retreated. Later when 3...