Stuart Legg Movies

Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a...

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

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

A brief history of paper followed by a look at the manufacturing process in a paper mill in Markinch, Scotland.

A wartime documentary following Canadian convoy operations and naval escort duties in the North Atlantic during the early years of World War II.

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

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

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...

A dramatized documentary portraying youth unemployment and state-supported training initiatives in 1930s Canada.

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

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...

Canadian documentary on war time Italy.

The countries of Europe are faced with a difficult choice: should they maintain their borders, or should they, with their 300 million people, their...

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

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,...

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

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