Stuart Legg Movies

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

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

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...

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...

A brief history of paper followed by a look at the manufacturing process in a paper mill in Markinch, Scotland.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...

A dramatized documentary portraying youth unemployment and state-supported training initiatives in 1930s Canada.

A record of an educational experiment in the small town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire.

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

Canadian documentary on war time Italy.

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.