Movies

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

An overview of the shepherd's life during the lambing season.

Marionette parody of Charlie Chaplin.

Developed from John Grierson's opportunistic recruitment of the well-known director and anthropologist Robert Flaherty, Industrial Britain provides a...

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

Legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock pays tribute to the "father of the documentary", John Grierson, exploring what made his work so...

Trade Tattoo went even further than Rainbow Dance in its manipulation of the Gasparcolor process. The original black and white footage consisted of...

In this parody of Sherlock Holmes, the Great Detective goes to an opium den of inequity in the dangerous London district of London and challenges...

A celebration of the importance of the British countryside.

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

Filmed in Uganda, Man of Africa was assembled by legendary documentary producer John Grierson. The film depicts the mass migration of the Bakija and...

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

The story of the North Sea herring fleets from Yarmouth and Lowestoft to Shetland.

The building and launch of a new long-wave radio transmitter - just as the TV age is about to be born.

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

The history and modern day industry of Stirlingshire, Scotland.

Marionette parody of Buster Keaton.