British Council Movies

A stately film about the history of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, with a focus on the architecture and individuals buried there, and the impact of th...

An overview of the free healthcare available for children, and the environmental improvements that led to increased public well-being in Britain.

Three overseas servicemen take a tour of the Royal Mile - visiting the sights between Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace, and learning about the som...

Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

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

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War -...

A documentary on the English language and it's origins.

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...

Training and duties of a British policeman.

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...

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

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 The Ministry of Information requested that the film should be withdrawn as it was considered...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...