Stuart Legg Movies

Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a...

Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...

A brief history of paper followed by a look at the manufacturing process in a paper mill in Markinch, Scotland.

A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications...

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.

A wartime documentary following Canadian convoy operations and naval escort duties in the North Atlantic during the early years of World War II.

A playful and affectionate look at London Zoo and the people and animals who make up its daily life.

A dramatized documentary portraying youth unemployment and state-supported training initiatives in 1930s Canada.

A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges.

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Shows new methods in treating those afflicted with mental health issues. Contrasts past treatment regimes where people were locked away out of sight...

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...

The countries of Europe are faced with a difficult choice: should they maintain their borders, or should they, with their 300 million people, their...

A popular study of relative anatomy and physiology with particular reference to size and weight.

This short film examines the Japan that emerged at the beginning of the 1900s and was firmly established as an industrialized nation by the outbreak...

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

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

Spotlight on the Colonies places particular emphasis on the economic benefits that continued investment and development within the colonies will...