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...

Documentary about the construction of telephone lines.

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

British war documentary

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

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

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

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

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

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

The laying of underground telephone cables.

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.

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

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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