Movies: Ivor Montagu

Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English....

Documentary short directed by Sidney Cole and Thorold Dickinson....

Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a s...

The family of the very wealthy but infirm Great Aunt Louisa await her untimely demise in the hopes of inheriting her great fortune....

A short film on Republican efforts to improve education standards during the Spanish Civil War....

This cinematic travelogue consists of three parts. In the first part, texts and small maps are our guides through Madrid in 1936. We see pictures of daily life against the background of the fascist shillings. A sad portrait of destroyed houses, the s...

Silent film with English inter-titles on the German Communist leader Ernst Thälmann and the campaign to release him from Buchenwald concentration camp....

Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC community programme unit....

Newsreels from the '30s constitute the bulk of this fascinating documentary, clearly illustrating that the public was fed an extremely biased view of events: straight propaganda, the stricture to provide entertainment, and the attempt to be objective...

A 1930 black and white nature documentary featuring the jackass penguins in their native haunt in the South West coast of Africa....

Inguti, an old African chief, recalls his life as a young hunter. He sets out to find food for the forthcoming feast. On reaching the shore of Fire Mountain lake he finds dead fish which he believes to be an ill omen. On his return, he warns the witc...

“Bitter attack on the policies of the National Government - its laxity over social services and its mistakes in foreign policy - and their consequences for the British working class. There are two versions - long [30 mins.] and short [17 mins.].” - B...