Michael Balcon Movies

Concerns a young woman who embarks on a series of love affairs. Originally around 100 minutes, only a 23 minute, 9.5mm cut-down version is known to...

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or...

A young riveter working high up on a steel girder watches a girl practising a tap-dance in a building opposite, and while applauding her, he loses...

Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the...

A spoof of the Topical Budget newsreels with items on "Daylight Saving", "Economy in the Household", "The Art of Self Protection", and "Paris...

'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)

Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the...

A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

A young man is shocked to discover that his fiancé is the mistress of his mother's lover.

From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators....

This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different...

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is...

A comedy short directed by W.P. Kellino.

British war documentary

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!

An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she...