Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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...

“The rolling hills and wide valleys of the Chilterns are given centre stage in this travelogue aimed at boosting tourism … The Chilterns...

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military...

A French-language Free French propaganda short made in wartime London: Germaine Sablon performs three resistance songs—most notably the first...

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.

The operation of a floating sea fort during WWII, and the lives of those who work on board.

Londoners prepare for war.

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

British war documentary

A compilation tracing the history of realist cinema from its beginnings to World War II. Divided into five parts, it covers the development of...

Men in Danger is a documentary about health and safety in industry, covering occupational diseases and potential accidents. It also covers the...

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".