Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

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.

The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in...

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

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

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime...

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of...

A famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young...

The operation of a floating sea fort during WWII, and the lives of those who work on board.

The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

Londoners prepare for war.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent...

Marina, a beautiful young woman with leprous parents, marries a shipyard owner to escape an institution. She moves to a coastal village, faces...