Harry Watt

The First Days

Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt

Londoners prepare for war.

London Can Take It!

Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt

Quentin Reynolds

A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.

Christmas Under Fire

Harry Watt, Charles Hasse

Quentin Reynolds

How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.

Night Mail

Harry Watt, Basil Wright

Arthur Clark, John Grierson

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.

The Front Line

Harry Watt

The world's press gather at Dover, England awaiting a threatened German attack.

Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios

T. E. B. Clarke, Charles Crichton

Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.

How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran

George C. Stoney, James B. Brown

George C. Stoney, Michael Balcon

American documentary film-maker George C. Stoney visits the Aran Islands to try and unravel some of the myths surrounding a film that had engrossed him as a youngster - Robert Flaherty's famous documentary "Man of Aran" released in 1934.

Britain at Bay

Harry Watt

J.B. Priestley

Wartime morale-boosting propaganda short, looking at the greatness of Britain and the efforts of all to preserve her power and integrity.

Big Money

Harry Watt

Directed by Harry Watt.

The Overlanders

Harry Watt

Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward

It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a disparate group decides to drive them overland half way across the continent, from Wyndham in Western Australia through the Northern Territory outback of Australia to pastures north of Brisbane, Queensland.

Squadron 992

Harry Watt

Shows how the RAF's barrage balloon squadron are trained, and then on the job.

Eureka Stockade

Harry Watt

Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett

Spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and the events leading up to it.

The Siege of Pinchgut

Harry Watt

Aldo Ray, Heather Sears

An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.

Nine Men

Harry Watt

Gordon Jackson, Grant Sutherland

The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they can be relieved.

Target for Tonight

Harry Watt

Percy Charles Pickard

Footage of the actual planning and execution of a bombing raid on Germany.

Where No Vultures Fly

Harry Watt

Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan

A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to create a national park to protect them.