Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately must rescue her from bandits

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

The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

British war documentary

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

The whimsical Riquet's has kidnapped and married a well-born young girl, Ralda. They travel around Spain performing their act in a circus but Ralda's...

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

This film is based on actual letters German soldiers sent home from the siege of Leningrad during World War II. The litany of trouble these poor...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

Londoners prepare for war.

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

This first film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play about class distinctions was made in 1955 in the Vienna Rosenhügel studios, but it was...

Documentary on savings