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Browse 48 movies from British Council
An introduction to the famous and historic university town, showing the colleges, as well as the place itself.
Dec 1945
Three overseas servicemen take a tour of the Royal Mile - visiting the sights between Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace, and learning about the sometimes gruesome history of Scotland.
Jan 1943
A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson.
Dec 1995
The history of Westminster Abbey and a tour of the monuments within it; accompanied by choral music and including footage of the coronation of King George VI in 1937.
The manufacture of cables for transmitting electric power is shown. Copper bars are rolled and drawn into wire, which is twisted into strands, and covered for insulation and protection with layers of rubber, lead, cloth and paper. The completed cables are then given high-voltage tests before being dispatched from the factory.
Apr 1944
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 -- enlivened by the appearance of ghostly denizens to defend their eras against the narrator's various strictures!
A documentary about the Penlee Lifeboat and her crew, based around the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole.
Oct 1940
Miranda's Letter takes as a starting point the 'missing women' in Shakespeare, in this instance, The Tempest, and imagines what Miranda's mother would have wanted to say to her daughter. Commissioned as part of Shakespeare Lives 2016.
Jun 2016
Butt-sniffing action abounds as five otherwise ordinary members of the public get in touch with their primal instincts.
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British documentary on how the community of Ulster got converted to war times.
Oct 1941
A young man learns to become a farmer, keen to show the integration of traditional farming with modern science and education.
An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.
Oct 2016
'Divided We Scroll' is an eerie depiction of our intimate relationships with technology.
Jun 2019
Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.
Jan 1942
Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer.
Feb 2021
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making and broadcasting of pedagogical radio shows on the BBC.
A documentary on modern British farming.
In the run up to the 1945 general election, the film focuses on the electoral race of one of the 640 local constituencies in Britain, that of Kettering in Northamptonshire.
Jul 1946
Rufus is a child with an extraordinary obsession: a burning, inþamed desire for anything red. Driven by this impassioned, scarlet fixation, which he can neither control nor understand, he shifts through life in a whirlwind of redness, entirely in the hands of his bizarre compulsion.
Mar 2003
The film shows speeded-up germination of the seed to form roots and shoot, at whose base the leaves later form a bulb. The flower produces pollen grains (shown much magnified), which are transferred by insects to the stigmas for fertilization of seeds inside the ovary.