Bill Forsyth Movies

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

A look at Scotland's first country park.

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between...

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of...

A documentary, edited by Bill Forsyth, promoting the proposed development of Glasgow in the 1970s.

A young artist struggles to seek inspiration from a slowly crumbling cityscape. Moving Image Archive: http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/3631

The life and work of the Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

The industries of the Scottish Highlands.

A look at the manufacture and use of Polar diesel engines.

Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the...

The story of Harris Tweed and its Hebridean homeland.

A documentary profile of three Scottish screenwriters: Edward Boyd, Gordon Williams and Alan Sharp.

Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as...

Abraham lives deep in the heart of an industrial wasteland. His only companion is a giant machine. Inside the machine is a man and a woman who take...

A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.

A look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'. Chris Menges discusses his early career in...

The scenery and wildlife around Loch Lomond, Scotland, and the people who live and work there.

Highland boat-building, showing intermediate processes of clinker- and carvel built boats, as well as those involved in ferroconcrete and steel...

Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless...