Movies: Empire Marketing Board

A young boy dreams he's on a guided tour of Buckingham Palace and various countries in the British Empire....

A silent film by John Grierson. It tells the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery....

Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a hint of ambiguity or doubt--fits that category well. The authoritatarian narrator feels out-of-date and...

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

A short, silent documentary by Robert J. Flaherty about pottery in England....

An intricate and richly detailed observation of every step in the making of an aircraft engine....

Life on a farm at springtime, including blossom, piglets and ducklings....

Story of salmon fishers and the methods they use; captures the migration of salmon up a Highland river for spawning....

A documentary taking a journey down the Thames from Tower Bridge to the Shellhaven refinery near London....