Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

The life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged, the rich and the poor.

Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from.

Captures the role played by the Royal Navy in the defence of Britain, and their role in convoy escort.

“The rolling hills and wide valleys of the Chilterns are given centre stage in this travelogue aimed at boosting tourism … The Chilterns...

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

The laying of underground telephone cables.

Documentary about the construction of telephone lines.

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

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

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.

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

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

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.

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

How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent...