Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Short GPO documentary, about mail that is sent out of the country to Switzerland.

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from.

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

British war documentary

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime...

The first behind-the-scenes documentary in the film industry, from the making of a camera (Debrie) to studio shooting and directing, including...

It starts in the Indian tabas, goes through colonial architecture and arrives in the Brazilian capital. The film follows a script left by Alberto...

Spare Time is a 1939 British film directed by Humphrey Jennings for the GPO Film Unit, and made for the 1939 New York World's Fair. It is 15 minutes...

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

A French-language Free French propaganda short made in wartime London: Germaine Sablon performs three resistance songs—most notably the first...

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

Captures the role played by the Royal Navy in the defence of Britain, and their role in convoy escort.

The production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp, and a brief dramatised history of the development of the penny...

Londoners prepare for war.

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".