British Council Movies

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...

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

British Council's public campaign, consisting of 5 TV clips with brief and vivid messages on inclusion issues related to race, physical disability,...

The history of Westminster Abbey and a tour of the monuments within it; accompanied by choral music and including footage of the coronation of King...

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

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

A retired teacher, isolated on New Year’s Eve, lures a young woman into his quiet home. Their encounter forces him to confront a truth far more...

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

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

In the North East of England there is a strange and hyper localised genre you have in all likelihood never heard of. It’s called Makina. ...

A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson.

Three overseas servicemen take a tour of the Royal Mile - visiting the sights between Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace, and learning about the...

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

Our bodies store memories. The body does not forget. A childhood in Damascus, OCD, the revolution, falling in love with a woman. My body remembers,...

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...

This short film features two atmospheric scenes from Shakespeare's famous tragedy: Act II Scene 2, the murder scene, and Act V Scene 1, with Lady...

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War...

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

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

In Pied Piper's Voyage, Lebohang Kganye constructs a visual narrative of animation from black-and-white photographs arranged on wooden panels....