British Council Movies

The manufacture of cables for transmitting electric power is shown. Copper bars are rolled and drawn into wire, which is twisted into strands, and...

The history of Westminster Abbey and a tour of the monuments within it; accompanied by choral music and including footage of the coronation of King...

British documentary on how the community of Ulster got converted to war times.

A documentary on modern British farming.

Butt-sniffing action abounds as five otherwise ordinary members of the public get in touch with their primal instincts.

'Divided We Scroll' is an eerie depiction of our intimate relationships with technology.

In the run up to the 1945 general election, the film focuses on the electoral race of one of the 640 local constituencies in Britain, that of...

Training and duties of a British policeman.

A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson.

Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War...

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making and broadcasting of pedagogical radio shows on the BBC.

A documentary feature with Basil Spence explaining, with the aid of a model, the concepts behind the design of the new Coventry Cathedral to replace...

Three overseas servicemen take a tour of the Royal Mile - visiting the sights between Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace, and learning about the...

A film of the Clyde, from its source at Elvanfoot to its mouth at Glasgow, from rivulet to mighty waterway. Street scenes in Glasgow, shots of...

A documentary on the English language and it's origins.

Britain's check to the German drive for world domination. The Ministry of Information requested that the film should be withdrawn as it was...

The film shows speeded-up germination of the seed to form roots and shoot, at whose base the leaves later form a bulb. The flower produces pollen...

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.