Stuart Legg Movies

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

Sharjah airport in the 1930's showing the airport, town, Emirate and Imperial Airways staff. An early British documentary produced by many pioneers...

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

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

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

Canadian documentary on war time Italy.

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

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

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,...

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

An explanation of what is involved in the devaluation of sterling.

A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases.