The Immortal Land (1958)
Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece. ...
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Basil Wright - was a documentary filmmaker, film historian, film critic and teacher. During World War II, Wright worked only as a producer, first at John Grierson's Film Centre before joining The Crown Film Unit between 1945 and 1946 as producer-in-charge. Among the best known films he produced for Crown are Humphrey Jennings' A Diary for Timothy (1946) and A Defeated People (1946) and Instruments of the Orchestra (1946) featuring Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.[1] Returning to direction in the early 1950s, his films included Waters of Time (1951) made for the Festival of Britain, World Without End (1953) directed with Paul Rotha for UNESCO and Greece: The Immortal Land (1958) in collaboration with his friend the artist Michael Ayrton.
Peter and his friends find unexpected and exciting adventures when all their wishes are granted by a magic marble. ...
Watch NowUNESCO-funded "one world" documentary by Paul Rotha and Basil Wright. ...
Watch NowA BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at an exhibition of Da Vinci's drawings at Burlington House in London, marking the quincentenary of his birth. ...
Watch NowThe story of a ship's arrival, unloading and departure from the Port of London in 1951, and all the life of the docklands and the river. Made for the Festival of Britain. ...
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A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents. ...
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A Defeated People is a 1946 British documentary short film made by the Crown Film Unit, directed by Humphrey Jennings and narrated by William Hartnell. The film depicts the shattered state of Germany, both physically and as a society, in the immediate afte ...
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A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944. ...
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Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II. ...
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A short documentary to demonstrate what can be done with Technicolor film and to show various other colourful products. ...
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A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz. ...
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A 1940 black and white film, production sponsored by the Colonial Empire Marketing Board. 'The East African colonies are introduced as representative examples of the Colonial Empire. A tribal dance hints at the "life of fear and uncertainty" replaced by B ...
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Weiss's classic B&W agitprop short made after his escape to London just ahead of the Nazis. He carried with him three reels of material for his unrealized film 'Dvacet Let Svobody' ('Twenty Years of Freedom') i.e. 20 years of the existence of independent C ...
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The history of Scotland and the factors that have shaped the character of its people. ...
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A housewife galvanises her docker husband to take an interest in more important matters than the football pools. ...
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Focuses upon the journey of child refugees from the Basque Country to temporary accommodation near Southampton, Hampshire [England]. ...
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Rainbow Dance is a 1936 British animated film released by the GPO Film Unit. This is Lye's second film. It uses the Gasparcolor process. ...
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This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnight run from Euston, London to Glasgow. ...
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Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs. ...
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A celebration of the importance of the British countryside. ...
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Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a hint of ambiguity or doubt--fits that category well. The authoritatarian narrator feels out-of-date and unsop ...
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A portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the National Film Board in 1939. Interweaving archival footage, interviews with people who knew him and footage of Grierson himself, this film is a sensitive and in ...
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