Movies: Stuart Legg

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnight run from Euston, London to Glasgow....

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

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 full-rigged Windjammer sailing from Australia to England via Cape Horn....

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

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

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."...

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have children; the Potts are unconventional and unhappy, without children....

This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries....

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 of World War II. Facing the greatest threat in their history, the democracies of the Pacific took car...

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

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

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 Library and Archives Canada in 2005....

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

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 film depicts the work of the Royal Canadian marines who accompanied convoys of military supplies to ...

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

A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and insecticides and land reclamation....

Shows new methods in treating those afflicted with mental health issues. Contrasts past treatment regimes where people were locked away out of sight with the new, 1960s, psychiatric ideas of "group therapy" and talking therapy. Also shows practical b...

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, circumstances during the immediate postwar period following the Second World War, leading to the format...

A documentary looking at the British Government's atomic weapons design, construction and testing on the Australian Monte Bello Islands in 1951....

Canadian documentary on war time Italy....