Bolibar

Bolibar 1928

1

Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.

1928

Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars 1928

6.90

The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.

1928

One Family

One Family 1930

1

A young boy dreams he's on a guided tour of Buckingham Palace and various countries in the British Empire.

1930

Strictly Business

Strictly Business 1931

1

The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.

1931

Sin

Sin 1928

6.00

A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.

1928

A Throw of Dice

A Throw of Dice 1929

6.20

Two neighboring kings addicted to gambling, Ranjit and his cousin Sohat, vie for the same beautiful young woman, Sunita, daughter of the hermit Kanwa.

1929

Underground

Underground 1928

6.90

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station. But the lady chooses Bill, and Bert isn't the type to take rejection lightly...

1928

The Windjammer

The Windjammer 1930

1

Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a full-rigged Windjammer sailing from Australia to England via Cape Horn.

1930

Dance Pretty Lady

Dance Pretty Lady 1931

1

During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.

1931

A Cottage on Dartmoor

A Cottage on Dartmoor 1929

7.20

A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and a repeat customer pay to one another.

1929

The Great Defender

The Great Defender 1934

4.17

Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.

1934

Magic Myxies

Magic Myxies 1931

1

Short film showing (with limited accuracy) the life-cycle of myxomycetes.

1931

Any Evening After Work

Any Evening After Work 1930

5.00

A man contracts a sexually transmitted disease, but is reluctant to seek medical help - until a no-nonsense lecture about the risks he is taking forces him to change his mind.

1930

Water Folk

Water Folk 1932

1

A Secrets of Nature short.

1932

Q Ships

Q Ships 1928

1

During World War I, the British navy disguised some of its warships as civilian cargo ships, known as Q Ships, in order to fool the Germans. German U-boat commander Capt. Von Haag spots one of these ships, commanded by Adm. Sims, in the English Channel and begins tracking it, leading to a war of nerves between Von Haag and Sims.

1928

The Runaway Princess

The Runaway Princess 1929

1

A prince in disguise saves a runaway princess from becoming a forger's dupe.

1929

Winter

Winter 1923

1

A sign of approaching winter - the frost catches the leaves which begin to fall.

1923

The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands

The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands 1927

6.30

The film focuses on the naval warfare around the Battle of Coronel and Battle of the Falkland Islands during the First World War. It was the last in a successful series of documentary reconstructions of First World War battles by British Instructional Films made between 1921 and 1927.

1927

The Strangler

The Strangler 1932

1

A British crime film directed by Norman Lee

1932