Stuart Legg Movies

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...

A brief history of paper followed by a look at the manufacturing process in a paper mill in Markinch, Scotland.

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

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

A popular study of relative anatomy and physiology with particular reference to size and weight.

Not by any means a truly comprehensive scientific study, this film nevertheless conveys in a popular fashion facts as to the development and habits...

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

A wartime documentary following Canadian convoy operations and naval escort duties in the North Atlantic during the early years of World War II.

The countries of Europe are faced with a difficult choice: should they maintain their borders, or should they, with their 300 million people, their...

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.

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

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

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

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...

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

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

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

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

Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.

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...