Movies: Leslie Mitchell

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home....

The story of a husband's implication in his wife's death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a murder charge....

Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie tries his hand as a boxer, a bouncer and a commissionaire, and finally finds success as a singer. He al...

A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her...

In this feature-length documentary from 1976, Leslie Mitchell and special guests recall the birth of BBC Television forty years before....

Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps receiving threats from the disgruntled Boswell Marsh, who is seen in town buying theatre tickets and revol...

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America....

In 1951, the 3rd French expedition to the Himalayas set out to conquer Nanda Devi (7,800 m). The attempt to cross the ridge between the main peak and Nanda Devi East resulted in the death of two members of the expedition. Expedition leader Roger Dupl...

Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II....

A look at the facilities and character of Oxford University, and the varied experiences that are associated with studying there....

Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs....

Documentary featuring aircraft from the 1953 Farnborough Airshow....

Produced by British Movietone for “Her Majesty’s Central Office of Information”, Royal Destiny traces Queen Elizabeth II’s young life up to her ascension to the throne....

Highlights from the 1949 Farnborough Air Show....

Highlights from the Farnborough Airshow of 1952....

Newsreels from the '30s constitute the bulk of this fascinating documentary, clearly illustrating that the public was fed an extremely biased view of events: straight propaganda, the stricture to provide entertainment, and the attempt to be objective...

'Royal Road' takes a look at both the public-facing activities of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) during the Second World War, as well as a showing a glimpse of the royal family's private life in the gardens at Windsor....

In this film, specially taken for the BBC, viewers are given an idea of the growth of the television installation at Alexandra Palace and an insight into production routine. There will be many shots behind the scenes. One sequence, for instance, will...

A documentary about the Penlee Lifeboat and her crew, based around the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole....

On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb. Locals heard a roar, followed by the earth shaking, the walls of clay houses breaking, and windows shattering, as a nuclear mushroom shape filled the skies....