British Council Movies

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...

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

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

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

Untung and Nesti really love their 6 year old son who has autism. Their daily life becomes more challenging because both of their parents are...

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

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,...

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

Historically, the queer community has not been portrayed in mainstream culture as being capable of protecting children and young people. Yet my uncle...

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...

A documentary on modern British farming.

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

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

A rendition of the traditional English folksong 'The Lincolnshire Poacher', accompanied by animated drawings.

A Record of the Great Social Experiment of "Evacuation". During the first three days of war one million children were moved to places of safety in...

Three Canadian soldiers visiting London discuss the experiences of Britain that they have been writing home to loved ones about.

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

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

The men of the trawlers and drifters set out at dawn on voyages of any- thing from twenty to four thousand miles. This is a wartime picture of...

Britain's check to the German drive for world domination. The Ministry of Information requested that the film should be withdrawn as it was...