Michael Balcon Movies

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...

When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron,...

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

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.

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

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

'Scots star sings songs in music hall setting.' (British Film Catalogue)

A comedy short directed by W.P. Kellino.

Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s...

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...

British war documentary

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...

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned...

According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian...

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

The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend...