British Council Popular Movie

Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marcelo Vallejo

A documentary on modern British farming.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frederick Grisewood

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ashley Thomas

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norman Shelley

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aewia Huillet

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Felix Aylmer

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sienna Guillory

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making and broadcasting of pedagogical radio shows on the BBC.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norman Shelley

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Miss Cunenk

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stephen Moynihan

A documentary on the English language and it's origins.

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Laurie

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Basil Spence

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raffey Cassidy

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Speaight

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert McDermott

As part of the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

An introduction to the famous and historic university town, showing the colleges, as well as the place itself.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lawrence Bragg

Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Dramatically told, English Criminal Justice takes us on a journey through the principles and procedures of the various courts of law in Britain.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harold Warrender