Montagu Slater Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

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...

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