Movies: Alberto Cavalcanti

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

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Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she real...

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A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide. But one of the winners falls for his stepdaughter, and this could change the situation....

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."...

The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military preoccupations of individual nations....

Literary adaptation: A female musician in Asia's tropics escapes from harassers' advances to an island where a timid man has retreated. Later when 3 ruffians search for gold there, he summons the courage to defend her and his turf....

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

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Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family....

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."...

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A British documentary...

The production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp, and a brief dramatised history of the development of the penny post....

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Where he goes, he doesn't need luggage... A very talkative traveler settles in the only wagon occupied by a man with a strange diction. The train is moving forward, everything becomes worrying around it. Unable to get out of its cabin, the train runs...

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

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