British Council Movies

An introduction to the famous and historic university town, showing the colleges, as well as the place itself.

Three overseas servicemen take a tour of the Royal Mile - visiting the sights between Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace, and learning about the...

Miranda's Letter takes as a starting point the 'missing women' in Shakespeare, in this instance, The Tempest, and imagines what Miranda's mother...

A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson.

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War...

The history of Westminster Abbey and a tour of the monuments within it; accompanied by choral music and including footage of the coronation of King...

A documentary about the Penlee Lifeboat and her crew, based around the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole.

The film shows speeded-up germination of the seed to form roots and shoot, at whose base the leaves later form a bulb. The flower produces pollen...

Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

The manufacture of cables for transmitting electric power is shown. Copper bars are rolled and drawn into wire, which is twisted into strands, and...

British documentary on how the community of Ulster got converted to war times.

'Divided We Scroll' is an eerie depiction of our intimate relationships with technology.

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.

A young man learns to become a farmer, keen to show the integration of traditional farming with modern science and education.

Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer.

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making and broadcasting of pedagogical radio shows on the BBC.

Butt-sniffing action abounds as five otherwise ordinary members of the public get in touch with their primal instincts.

A rendition of the traditional English folksong 'The Lincolnshire Poacher', accompanied by animated drawings.

Rufus is a child with an extraordinary obsession: a burning, inþamed desire for anything red. Driven by this impassioned, scarlet fixation,...

A documentary on the English language and it's origins.