Movies: Stuart Legg

Short film produced and directed in 1945 for the National Film Board of Canada series The World in Action. Over its nearly 21-minute running time, circumstances during the immediate postwar period following the Second World War, leading to the format...

An explanation of what is involved in the devaluation of sterling....

Made at the end of WWII, this documentary looks at Britain's post-war period. During a time of economic hardship, Prime Minister Winston Churchill is concerned about the future of his nation....

Not by any means a truly comprehensive scientific study, this film nevertheless conveys in a popular fashion facts as to the development and habits of various types of apes. Skillful direction and interesting commentary almost succeed in transforming...

This short film focuses on the period between World War I and World War II when France was struck by riots, strikes and economic stress. During the war that followed there was again internal dissension, between those supporting the Fighting French an...

This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries....

A Cambridge student takes the blame for his gambling brother....

This short documentary about the Canadian seamen who manned Canada's eastern ports during WWII is the first film in the Canada Carries On series. The film depicts the work of the Royal Canadian marines who accompanied convoys of military supplies to ...

A documentary looking at the British Government's atomic weapons design, construction and testing on the Australian Monte Bello Islands in 1951....

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study....

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively....

Canadian documentary on war time Italy....

A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges....

A record of an educational experiment in the small town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire....

Spotlight on the Colonies places particular emphasis on the economic benefits that continued investment and development within the colonies will provide for Britain...

This wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression....

A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications that have ensued....

The first film ever distributed by the NFB, The Case of Charlie Gordon focuses on an unemployed young Canadian who has never held a job. In the late '30s, there were many in Charlie's position. Determined to change this, a committee was formed to tea...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases....

The end of WWII has brought much hardship to Western Europe, especially in the area of food security and availability. The war has wiped out much of Europe's ability to grow its own food - it, as a continent, was close to being self sufficient during...