Movies: Britain

Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a hint of ambiguity or doubt--fits that category well. The authoritatarian narrator feels out-of-date and...

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British animation short from Paul Vester....

Featuring footage spanning from 1901 to 1985, this little-seen footage has been found from all across the UK. This programme allows an exploration into stories of migration, community and also the struggle against inequality, while also providing the...

Beautifully made and historically important pipe organs are being scrapped in their hundreds. Once at the centre of British culture pipe organs are now neglected and unloved....

A generation before the famous Nazi blitz of London during WWII came the first aerial terror bombings of London by German zeppelins during WWI. Monstrous machines two football fields long filled with flammable hydrogen gas carried tons of explosives ...

Having been granted special permission to film inside one of the most secretive countries in the world, Britain's fastest snowboarder sets off to experience first hand this country we know so little about....

An historical account looking at how Britain's canals were used, and declining, in 1951....

Jane gives up being an office typist and works in an aircraft factory....