Movies: British Council

This short film features two atmospheric scenes from Shakespeare's famous tragedy: Act II Scene 2, the murder scene, and Act V Scene 1, with Lady Macbeth and that damned spot. The wonderful Wilfrid Lawson and Cathleen Nesbitt make such a fine murdero...

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 grains (shown much magnified), which are transferred by insects to the stigmas for fertilization of seed...

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 -- enlivened by the appearance of ghostly denizens to defend their eras against the narrator's variou...

Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together to discuss, rehearse and re-enact their memories 35 years after the conflict....

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

Part of the Junior Biology series, this study of pin mould is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage....

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

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

Miranda's Letter takes as a starting point the 'missing women' in Shakespeare, in this instance, The Tempest, and imagines what Miranda's mother would have wanted to say to her daughter. Commissioned as part of Shakespeare Lives 2016....

A documentary on modern British farming....

A look at the manufacture of optical lenses, and their many uses throughout the different industries; from microscopes to spectacles to full use in the war effort....

The manufacture of cables for transmitting electric power is shown. Copper bars are rolled and drawn into wire, which is twisted into strands, and covered for insulation and protection with layers of rubber, lead, cloth and paper. The completed cable...

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 George VI in 1937....

A documentary about the Penlee Lifeboat and her crew, based around the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole....

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

Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer....

A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson....

An overview of the free healthcare available for children, and the environmental improvements that led to increased public well-being in Britain....

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

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