Movies: Stuart Legg

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

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study....

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 '30s, there were many in Charlie's position. Determined to change this, a committee was formed to tea...

This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries....

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

Examines contemporary educational methods and policies in the light of an age that has released new natural energies, to be used for or against mankind. It reiterates the question sociologists ask: is the development of social responsibility in today...

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 film depicts the work of the Royal Canadian marines who accompanied convoys of military supplies to ...

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, circumstances during the immediate postwar period following the Second World War, leading to the format...

A BAFTA special award nominated documentary following the post-war construction of an immense oil refinery near Manchester in the UK....

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."...

This wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression....

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

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....

A documentary looking at the British Government's atomic weapons design, construction and testing on the Australian Monte Bello Islands in 1951....

Propaganda short about the allied landing in France....

Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War....

Not by any means a truly comprehensive scientific study, this film nevertheless conveys in a popular fashion facts as to the development and habits of various types of apes. Skillful direction and interesting commentary almost succeed in transforming...

This short WWII propaganda documentary drives home the point that steel and committed steel workers can make the difference between winning and losing in modern warfare. A short sequence demonstrating the depravity of the Nazis is followed by a detai...

This short film focuses on the period between World War I and World War II when France was struck by riots, strikes and economic stress. During the war that followed there was again internal dissension, between those supporting the Fighting French an...