British Film Institute Production Board Movies

A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern...

A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband,...

Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.

The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard.

This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film....

Poplar's long tradition of political and social activism is on show in this community film. The East London district has been home to both grassroots...

An old woman, her grandson, cabbage soup... A man arrives, bearing meat, setting in motion a situation which escalates beyond the point of barter.

Song tells the story of the women who worked in Victorian London's clothing sweatshops, eschewing a conventional narrative in favour of a series of...

Cait, who has lost her boyfriend Marvin to another woman, sets herself a number of rituals to help overcome her loss.

In a hugely entertaining parody of her media persona, a pre-'Female Eunuch' Germaine Greer stars as a terrifyingly amorous woman who alternately...

A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends...

A tragi-comic boat movie in which Beauty and The Beast live out their own particular fairytales.

European emigre Tanya moves to London to work as a family au pair. Still grieving for her recently deceased father and rejected by an old friend,...

Horror story using stills. Based on the short story by Richard Davis.

“Film questions whether the encouragement of very low paid jobs and schemes - both in general and specifically how they function in the area...

Inspired by Virginia Woolf, a young writer worries that marriage will hinder her literary ambitions. The film includes extracts from Virginia Woolf's...

A series of non-dramatic tableaux representing scenes from De Sade's novel.

An elegant film about one man's fears and fantasies regarding HIV testing.

Anna follows her absent Mother on her nightly ritual, as she walks round the family house, turning the house lamps on one by one. In the course of...

In and around the tenement blocks and rubbish tips of the Glasgow slums, this short film depicts a young boy’s perspective of his family, his...