Stuart Legg Movies

A historical documentary tracing the development of powered flight from early aviation pioneers to the postwar jet age, focusing on Britain’s...

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

Canadian documentary on war time Italy.

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,...

A dramatized documentary portraying youth unemployment and state-supported training initiatives in 1930s Canada.

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

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

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

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

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

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

A Cambridge student takes the blame for his gambling brother.

A BAFTA special award nominated documentary following the post-war construction of an immense oil refinery near Manchester in the UK.

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

This documentary from the World in Action series tells the story of the great Allied invasion of Northwest Europe in 1944. The film reviews the...

Examines contemporary educational methods and policies in the light of an age that has released new natural energies, to be used for or against...

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

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

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