Movies: Stuart Legg

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

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake....

A short GPO documentary showing how undersea telephone cables are repaired....

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases....

A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges....

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

Two case studies highlighting the work of the National Council of Social Service: the conversion of a barn into a village hall in South Cerney, Gloucestershire, and the building of an occupational centre in the depressed mining village of Pentre in t...

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and transmitters, weaving speeches, music, and outside broadcasts—featuring voices like H. G. Wells and Ramsay Ma...

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

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 of World War II. Facing the greatest threat in their history, the democracies of the Pacific took car...

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

A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and insecticides and land reclamation....

Shows new methods in treating those afflicted with mental health issues. Contrasts past treatment regimes where people were locked away out of sight with the new, 1960s, psychiatric ideas of "group therapy" and talking therapy. Also shows practical b...

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

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnight run from Euston, London to Glasgow....

Canadian documentary on war time Italy....

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have children; the Potts are unconventional and unhappy, without children....

Britain's part in the emergence of air travel is followed from the Wright brothers to the De Havilland Comet....

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 Library and Archives Canada in 2005....

An explanation of what is involved in the devaluation of sterling....