Movies

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the...

A spoiled heiress defies her millionaire father by running off to France to pursue her lover. Things don't go entirely as planned.

An Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment he can find is as a builder's labourer. At first, he cannot...

Foppish Sir Percy Blakeney, who secretly leads a double life as the daring rescuer of French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French...

Winston Churchill understood the power of films, but the true extent of his use of cinema as a propaganda tool is rarely explored. In 1934, one of...

A 1948 animated film of Hein Heckroth’s painted storyboards, with the Red Shoes ballet as an alternate angle.

Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London.

The further adventures of the group of tourists on a trip around the French Riviera. From Cannes they travel to Juan les Pins, the Grimaldi Chateau...

In June 1980, Michael Powell came to Dartmouth as an artist in residence, developing and producing a fifteen-minute pilot film with the students...

The tourist group are in Monte Carlo, where Mdm Papillion wins a fortune.

Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to...

After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his...

A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the studio, reviewing her life, when a mysterious...

A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious...

A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder.

A corrupt bookmaker inherits a fortune by killing his step-daughter's husband and framing her lover.

The Silver Fleet was inspired by a true story from World War II. Holland now under German occupation, a Shipyard owner and Chief engineer Jaap van...

A documentary film examining Michael Powell's 1960 film "Peeping Tom," the controversy surrounding its release, and the life of its screenwriter, Leo...

Detailed interview with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger looking back at their long career as influential British film-makers and their unusual...