Leslie Mitchell Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

Account of the French expedition to the Himalayan peak of Nanda Devi in 1951; includes shots of the relief expedition led by Sherpa Tensing and some...

Newsreels from the '30s constitute the bulk of this fascinating documentary, clearly illustrating that the public was fed an extremely biased view of...

Highlights from the Farnborough Airshow of 1952.

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...

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.

'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,...

Produced by British Movietone for “Her Majesty’s Central Office of Information”, Royal Destiny traces Queen Elizabeth II’s...

A 1940 black and white film, production sponsored by the Colonial Empire Marketing Board. 'The East African colonies are introduced as...

Visit to concentration camps.

Highlights from the 1949 Farnborough Air Show.

Documentary featuring aircraft from the 1953 Farnborough Airshow.