Stuart Legg Movies

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

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

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

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

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

The first film ever distributed by the NFB, The Case of Charlie Gordon focuses on an unemployed young Canadian who has never held a job. In the late...

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

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 documentary about the Canadian seamen who manned Canada's eastern ports during WWII is the first film in the Canada Carries On series. The...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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