Stuart Legg Movies

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Propaganda short about the allied landing in France.

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

Commissioned by the Festival of Britain to show the similarities and contrasts between 1851 and 1951, by means of the Great Exhibition and the...

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

Shows new methods in treating those afflicted with mental health issues. Contrasts past treatment regimes where people were locked away out of sight...

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

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

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...

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,...

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

Spotlight on the Colonies places particular emphasis on the economic benefits that continued investment and development within the colonies will...

Made at the end of WWII, this documentary looks at Britain's post-war period. During a time of economic hardship, Prime Minister Winston Churchill is...

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

A Cambridge student takes the blame for his gambling brother.

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

Propaganda short about the Second World War.

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

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,...

Examines contemporary educational methods and policies in the light of an age that has released new natural energies, to be used for or against...