Filmes

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

Norman McLaren was a cinematic genius who made films without cameras, and music without instruments. He produced sixty films in a stunning range of...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

The history of Scotland and the factors that have shaped the character of its people.

Marionette parody of Charlie Chaplin.

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

Filmed in Uganda, Man of Africa was assembled by legendary documentary producer John Grierson. The film depicts the mass migration of the Bakija and...

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

The building and launch of a new long-wave radio transmitter - just as the TV age is about to be born.

The history and modern day industry of Stirlingshire, Scotland.

Legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock pays tribute to the "father of the documentary", John Grierson, exploring what made his work so...

Short documentary about British education in the late 1930s.

Short documentary about weather forecasting, emphasising the importance of the GPO's telecommunications systems.

Marionette parody of Cherry Kearton.

A BFI-produced documentary about documentary filmmaker John Grierson speaking about documentary.

A record of an educational experiment in the small town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire.

A look at the work of Glasgow's Medical Officer of Health.

Smog was the deadly downside of Britain's industrial might, as this powerful and revealing documentary spells out. In 1937, coal was Britain's...

Marionette parody of Tom Mix.

Story of salmon fishers and the methods they use; captures the migration of salmon up a Highland river for spawning.