Michael Balcon Movies

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

American documentary film-maker George C. Stoney visits the Aran Islands to try and unravel some of the myths surrounding a film that had engrossed...

A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife...

Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations....

A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with...

A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which...

An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals.

The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family...

In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.

Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.

Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s...

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under...

A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander...

The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and...

A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.

Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by...

A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of...