Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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...

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

Documentary about the construction of tlephone lines.

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...

A British documentary

The administrator of an abandoned coffee farm and inveterate gambler saves money to buy the property, even knowing of the loving connections between...

French Resistance propaganda film. Filmed in wartime London and distributed to the Free French troops in England and Canada. Germaine Sablon...

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

This is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than ever. She still has to go through the forest and she...

The laying of underground telephone cables.

Captures the role played by the Royal Navy in the defence of Britain, and their role in convoy escort.

Where he goes, he doesn't need luggage... A very talkative traveler settles in the only wagon occupied by a man with a strange diction. The train is...

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

“The rolling hills and wide valleys of the Chilterns are given centre stage in this travelogue aimed at boosting tourism … The Chilterns...