Stuart Legg Movies

Shows new methods in treating those afflicted with mental health issues. Contrasts past treatment regimes where people were locked away out of sight with the new, 1960s, psychiatric ideas of "group therapy" and talking therapy. Also shows practical behaviours aimed at returning patients to...

The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library and Archives Canada in 2005.

An explanation of what is involved in the devaluation of sterling.

This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries.

A documentary looking at the British Government's atomic weapons design, construction and testing on the Australian Monte Bello Islands in 1951.

A Cambridge student takes the blame for his gambling brother.

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have children; the Potts are unconventional and unhappy, without children.

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.

Propaganda short about the allied landing in France.

Sharjah airport in the 1930's showing the airport, town, Emirate and Imperial Airways staff. An early British documentary produced by many pioneers of the medium.

Two case studies highlighting the work of the National Council of Social Service: the conversion of a barn into a village hall in South Cerney, Gloucestershire, and the building of an occupational centre in the depressed mining village of Pentre in the Rhondda Valley, Wales.

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.

A playful and affectionate look at London Zoo and the people and animals who make up its daily life.

A record of an educational experiment in the small town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire.

Commissioned by the Festival of Britain to show the similarities and contrasts between 1851 and 1951, by means of the Great Exhibition and the Festival.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases.

Spotlight on the Colonies places particular emphasis on the economic benefits that continued investment and development within the colonies will provide for Britain

Not by any means a truly comprehensive scientific study, this film nevertheless conveys in a popular fashion facts as to the development and habits of various types of apes. Skillful direction and interesting commentary almost succeed in transforming the film into an “entertainment” piece.

A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and insecticides and land reclamation.

Propaganda short about the Second World War.