Stuart Legg Movies

Account of the development of air transport during wartime and a review of issues to be solved in regulating international civil aviation.

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

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

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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...

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

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

This short documentary about the Canadian seamen who manned Canada's eastern ports during WWII is the first film in the Canada Carries On series. The...

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

The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with...

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

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

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

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,...

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...

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

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Not by any means a truly comprehensive scientific study, this film nevertheless conveys in a popular fashion facts as to the development and habits...

Documentary short about how Britain is improving after WWII and what the populace can do to help.

This short WWII propaganda documentary drives home the point that steel and committed steel workers can make the difference between winning and...