Montagu Slater Movies

British educational documentary film about the principal instruments in the modern symphony orchestra, illustrated through Benjamin Britten's...

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.

The transporting of a distillation colurm, 137 feet long, 500 miles by road from Greenwich to Grangemouth in Scotland. The commentary, spoken by the...

Anthony Dean Griffey creates a haunting portrait of the outcast fisherman who struggles under the burden of presumed guilt. This chilling production...

Southampton, a deep-water port with four tides a day, is an ocean terminal for the world's largest liners. Their coming and going, and the people who...

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim...

In the Hull Docks, the steamer S.S. Bravo arrives from Gothenburg with cargo.

Filmed in Uganda, Man of Africa was assembled by legendary documentary producer John Grierson. The film depicts the mass migration of the Bakija and...

An African tribe in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana work to build a maternity hospital, with the aid of government officials, and against the...

A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher.

In the cities of Britain we can travel in time as well as space. This film chooses the England of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Robert Adam and Captain...

Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.

Based on a poem published in 1810 with more ethnographic than dramatic focus, Britten constructed a sombre parable about the conflict between the...

This 1969 BBC production is about as close as we can get to a definitive version of Benjamin Britten's PETER GRIMES, one of the greatest 20th Century...