Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

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

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

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

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

Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family.

The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.

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

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

Documentary about the construction of telephone lines.

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

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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 laying of underground telephone cables.

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent...