British Council Movies

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

A documentary on modern British farming.

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

A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

Part of the Junior Biology series, this study of pin mould is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

A stately film about the history of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, with a focus on the architecture and individuals buried there, and the...

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

Dramatically told, English Criminal Justice takes us on a journey through the principles and procedures of the various courts of law in Britain.

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...

In the run up to the 1945 general election, the film focuses on the electoral race of one of the 640 local constituencies in Britain, that of...