Stuart Legg Movies

The countries of Europe are faced with a difficult choice: should they maintain their borders, or should they, with their 300 million people, their...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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 documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications...

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

A historical documentary tracing the development of powered flight from early aviation pioneers to the postwar jet age, focusing on Britain’s...

A wartime documentary following Canadian convoy operations and naval escort duties in the North Atlantic during the early years of World War II.

This wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression.

Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.

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...

Commissioned by the Festival of Britain to show the similarities and contrasts between 1851 and 1951, by means of the Great Exhibition and the...

A wartime documentary examining propaganda and information warfare during World War II.

A playful and affectionate look at London Zoo and the people and animals who make up its daily life.

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...