British Council Movies

The history of Westminster Abbey and a tour of the monuments within it; accompanied by choral music and including footage of the coronation of King Ge...

The manufacture of cables for transmitting electric power is shown. Copper bars are rolled and drawn into wire, which is twisted into strands, and cov...

In the run up to the 1945 general election, the film focuses on the electoral race of one of the 640 local constituencies in Britain, that of Ketterin...

As part of the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the sights...

Part of the Junior Biology series, this study of pin mould is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

Our bodies store memories. The body does not forget. A childhood in Damascus, OCD, the revolution, falling in love with a woman. My body remembers, it...

The film shows speeded-up germination of the seed to form roots and shoot, at whose base the leaves later form a bulb. The flower produces pollen grai...

Historically, the queer community has not been portrayed in mainstream culture as being capable of protecting children and young people. Yet my uncle...

British Council's public campaign, consisting of 5 TV clips with brief and vivid messages on inclusion issues related to race, physical disability, se...

A young man learns to become a farmer, keen to show the integration of traditional farming with modern science and education.

A Record of the Great Social Experiment of "Evacuation". During the first three days of war one million children were moved to places of safety in the...

Three Canadian soldiers visiting London discuss the experiences of Britain that they have been writing home to loved ones about.

British documentary on how the community of Ulster got converted to war times.

A documentary about the Penlee Lifeboat and her crew, based around the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole.

The men of the trawlers and drifters set out at dawn on voyages of any- thing from twenty to four thousand miles. This is a wartime picture of fishing...

Britain's check to the German drive for world domination. The Ministry of Information requested that the film should be withdrawn as it was considered...

A film of the Clyde, from its source at Elvanfoot to its mouth at Glasgow, from rivulet to mighty waterway. Street scenes in Glasgow, shots of factori...

A documentary feature with Basil Spence explaining, with the aid of a model, the concepts behind the design of the new Coventry Cathedral to replace t...

An introduction to the famous and historic university town, showing the colleges, as well as the place itself.

A look at the manufacture of optical lenses, and their many uses throughout the different industries; from microscopes to spectacles to full use in th...