Stuart Legg Trailers
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Stuart Legg (August 31, 1910 – July 23, 1988) was a pioneering English documentary filmmaker best known for his groundbreaking work with the National Film Board of Canada. His most notable achievement came at the 14th Academy Awards in 1941, when his film Churchill's Island won the Oscar for Best Documentary, making it the first documentary to ever win the prestigious award. Legg's Warclouds in the Pacific was also nominated for Best Documentary that year, further cementing his reputation as a key figure in the documentary film world. Throughout his career, Legg played a significant role in shaping documentary filmmaking, particularly in the areas of war and political themes.
Most Popular Stuart Legg Trailers
Total trailers found: 49
03 June 1935
1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.
01 January 1959
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases.
30 June 1933
A short GPO documentary showing how undersea telephone cables are repaired.
01 January 1964
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.
01 January 1951
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.
24 December 1941
This short film examines the Japan that emerged at the beginning of the 1900s and was firmly established as an industrialized nation by the outbreak of World War II.
01 January 1933
A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges.
18 September 1930
Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a full-rigged Windjammer sailing from Australia to England via Cape Horn.
03 December 1945
Made at the end of WWII, this documentary looks at Britain's post-war period. During a time of economic hardship, Prime Minister Winston Churchill is concerned about the future of his nation.
23 January 1937
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.
13 January 1936
This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnight run from Euston, London to Glasgow.
01 January 1947
Examines contemporary educational methods and policies in the light of an age that has released new natural energies, to be used for or against mankind.
31 December 1950
Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."
31 December 1950
Documentary short about how Britain is improving after WWII and what the populace can do to help.
18 May 1945
Short film produced and directed in 1945 for the National Film Board of Canada series The World in Action.
02 June 1938
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.
16 April 1934
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.
25 January 1943
Canadian documentary on war time Italy.
06 September 1935
Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.
03 December 1945
The end of WWII has brought much hardship to Western Europe, especially in the area of food security and availability.
01 January 1949
An explanation of what is involved in the devaluation of sterling.
01 January 1937
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.
01 January 1938
A playful and affectionate look at London Zoo and the people and animals who make up its daily life.
01 January 1960
A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.
01 July 1937
Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.
10 April 1950
Spotlight on the Colonies places particular emphasis on the economic benefits that continued investmn
01 January 1962
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.
17 March 2025
A record of an educational experiment in the small town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire.
28 July 1935
A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and transmitters, weaving speeches, music, and outside broadcasts—featuring voices like H.
01 January 1940
This short WWII propaganda documentary drives home the point that steel and committed steel workers can make the difference between winning and losing in modern warfare.
01 January 1942
This wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression.
01 May 1938
This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries.
13 July 1941
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.
01 January 1952
A BAFTA special award nominated documentary following the post-war construction of an immense oil refinery near Manchester in the UK.
01 January 1944
This documentary from the World in Action series tells the story of the great Allied invasion of Northwest Europe in 1944.
10 July 1944
Account of the development of air transport during wartime and a review of issues to be solved in regulating international civil aviation.
01 January 1940
A wartime documentary following Canadian convoy operations and naval escort duties in the North Atlantic during the early years of World War II.
01 January 1942
Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.
06 April 2025
Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.
01 January 1939
A dramatized documentary portraying youth unemployment and state-supported training initiatives in 1930s Canada.
01 January 1943
A wartime documentary examining propaganda and information warfare during World War II.
01 January 1953
A historical documentary tracing the development of powered flight from early aviation pioneers to the postwar jet age, focusing on Britain’s role in the evolution of air travel.
01 January 1957
A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications that have ensued.
01 September 1952
A documentary looking at the British Government's atomic weapons design, construction and testing on the Australian Monte Bello Islands in 1951.
01 March 1930
A Cambridge student takes the blame for his gambling brother.
02 January 1944
This short film focuses on the period between World War I and World War II when France was struck by riots, strikes and economic stress.
05 November 1952
A brief history of paper followed by a look at the manufacturing process in a paper mill in Markinch, Scotland.
01 January 1951
The countries of Europe are faced with a difficult choice: should they maintain their borders, or should they, with their 300 million people, their enormous productive capacity, their intellect and diligence, help themselves to a better future? To do this, borders must be cut, tariffs disappear and common sales markets created.
01 January 1952
A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Harwell's nuclear research establishment and the peaceful applications of atomic energy.
