British Council Movies

The manufacture of cables for transmitting electric power is shown. Copper bars are rolled and drawn into wire, which is twisted into strands, and...

Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer.

The history of Westminster Abbey and a tour of the monuments within it; accompanied by choral music and including footage of the coronation of King...

In the North East of England there is a strange and hyper localised genre you have in all likelihood never heard of. It’s called Makina. ...

A documentary feature with Basil Spence explaining, with the aid of a model, the concepts behind the design of the new Coventry Cathedral to replace...

Rufus is a child with an extraordinary obsession: a burning, inþamed desire for anything red. Driven by this impassioned, scarlet fixation,...

British documentary on how the community of Ulster got converted to war times.

In the run up to the 1945 general election, the film focuses on the electoral race of one of the 640 local constituencies in Britain, that of...

Butt-sniffing action abounds as five otherwise ordinary members of the public get in touch with their primal instincts.

A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson.

British Council's public campaign, consisting of 5 TV clips with brief and vivid messages on inclusion issues related to race, physical disability,...

Untung and Nesti really love their 6 year old son who has autism. Their daily life becomes more challenging because both of their parents are...

Miranda's Letter takes as a starting point the 'missing women' in Shakespeare, in this instance, The Tempest, and imagines what Miranda's mother...

A retired teacher, isolated on New Year’s Eve, lures a young woman into his quiet home. Their encounter forces him to confront a truth far more...

Our bodies store memories. The body does not forget. A childhood in Damascus, OCD, the revolution, falling in love with a woman. My body remembers,...

A stately film about the history of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, with a focus on the architecture and individuals buried there, and the...

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War...

A documentary on modern British farming.

'Divided We Scroll' is an eerie depiction of our intimate relationships with technology.

The film shows speeded-up germination of the seed to form roots and shoot, at whose base the leaves later form a bulb. The flower produces pollen...