Stuart Legg Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

This short documentary about the Canadian seamen who manned Canada's eastern ports during WWII is the first film in the Canada Carries On series. The...

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...

Documentary short about how Britain is improving after WWII and what the populace can do to help.

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

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

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with...

Short film produced and directed in 1945 for the National Film Board of Canada series The World in Action. Over its nearly 21-minute running time,...

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...

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.

Canadian documentary on war time Italy.

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

Examines contemporary educational methods and policies in the light of an age that has released new natural energies, to be used for or against...

Sharjah airport in the 1930's showing the airport, town, Emirate and Imperial Airways staff. An early British documentary produced by many pioneers...