Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

British war documentary

It starts in the Indian tabas, goes through colonial architecture and arrives in the Brazilian capital. The film follows a script left by Alberto...

Documentary about the construction of telephone lines.

Men in Danger is a documentary about health and safety in industry, covering occupational diseases and potential accidents. It also covers the...

Londoners prepare for war.

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

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

A British documentary

The production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp, and a brief dramatised history of the development of the penny...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

Literary adaptation: A female musician in Asia's tropics escapes from harassers' advances to an island where a timid man has retreated. Later when 3...