Michael Balcon Movies

A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife...

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

British war documentary

The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating...

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new...

The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company....

Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory. He is in...

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

The fumble fingered Josser finds himself thrown off the police force for his constant bungling, but by the picture's end, he manages to redeem...

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show...

Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant...

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

A man rescues his wife's lover during a disaster at a coal mine

A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.

A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..

In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get...

Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an...