Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

A French-language Free French propaganda short made in wartime London: Germaine Sablon performs three resistance songs—most notably the first...

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime...

The first behind-the-scenes documentary in the film industry, from the making of a camera (Debrie) to studio shooting and directing, including...

Literary adaptation: A female musician in Asia's tropics escapes from harassers' advances to an island where a timid man has retreated. Later when 3...

A compilation tracing the history of realist cinema from its beginnings to World War II. Divided into five parts, it covers the development of...

The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military...

“The rolling hills and wide valleys of the Chilterns are given centre stage in this travelogue aimed at boosting tourism … The Chilterns...

Captures the role played by the Royal Navy in the defence of Britain, and their role in convoy escort.

Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from.

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

Men in Danger is a documentary about health and safety in industry, covering occupational diseases and potential accidents. It also covers the...

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

The film was made by colorful printing of footage combined with drawing directly on film. The bouncy music drives home the message heard at the end...