British Council Filmes

Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together...

A documentary on modern British farming.

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...

An overview of the free healthcare available for children, and the environmental improvements that led to increased public well-being in Britain.

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

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

As part of the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the...

Dramatically told, English Criminal Justice takes us on a journey through the principles and procedures of the various courts of law in Britain.

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

'The Second Freedom' follows Jack Brown as he goes through life, and explores the various benefits he may receive as a result of National Insurance.

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

Our bodies store memories. The body does not forget. A childhood in Damascus, OCD, the revolution, falling in love with a woman. My body remembers,...

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".