Alberto Cavalcanti 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...

Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from.

How long-distance telephone calls are made, from the UK to the USA. We see operators, miles of wires, and the amplification of voice transmitted...

A compilation tracing the history of realist cinema from its beginnings to World War II. Divided into five parts, it covers the development of...

British war documentary

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

“The rolling hills and wide valleys of the Chilterns are given centre stage in this travelogue aimed at boosting tourism … The Chilterns...

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

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

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

Londoners prepare for war.

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.