Movies: Basil Wright

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at an exhibition of Da Vinci's drawings at Burlington House in London, marking the quincentenary of his birth....

Experimental documentary focusing on a day in the life of city workers, featuring montage sequences and repetition to emphasise the monotony of routine office work....

An overview of the shepherd's life during the lambing season....

A housewife galvanises her docker husband to take an interest in more important matters than the football pools....

UNESCO-funded "one world" documentary by Paul Rotha and Basil Wright....

A 1940 black and white film, production sponsored by the Colonial Empire Marketing Board. 'The East African colonies are introduced as representative examples of the Colonial Empire. A tribal dance hints at the "life of fear and uncertainty" replace...

Early documentary, slung together from footage depicting the first invasion of North America by Europeans, designed to show industrial technology's role in the development of North America. Used footage from the 1923 feature "The Covered Wagon" as th...

A celebration of the importance of the British countryside....

Focuses upon the journey of child refugees from the Basque Country to temporary accommodation near Southampton, Hampshire [England]....