Stuart Legg Filmes

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

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

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...

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

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

This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries.

Canadian documentary on war time Italy.

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

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...

The first film ever distributed by the NFB, The Case of Charlie Gordon focuses on an unemployed young Canadian who has never held a job. In the late...

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

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

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

Account of the development of air transport during wartime and a review of issues to be solved in regulating international civil aviation.

Made at the end of WWII, this documentary looks at Britain's post-war period. During a time of economic hardship, Prime Minister Winston Churchill is...

An explanation of what is involved in the devaluation of sterling.

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

Two case studies highlighting the work of the National Council of Social Service: the conversion of a barn into a village hall in South Cerney,...

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

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