Stuart Legg Movies

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

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

Canadian documentary on war time Italy.

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

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and...

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Harwell's nuclear research establishment and the peaceful applications of atomic energy.

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,...

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...

Made at the end of WWII, this documentary looks at Britain's post-war period. During a time of economic hardship, Prime Minister Winston Churchill is...

A Cambridge student takes the blame for his gambling brother.

Two case studies highlighting the work of the National Council of Social Service: the conversion of a barn into a village hall in South Cerney,...

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

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

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.

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