Direction: Harry Watt

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Harry Watt. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Night Mail

1936 · Documentary · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harry Watt · Basil Wright

Cast John Grierson · Stuart Legg

Plot Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.

7.0

119 votes

7.0

119 votes

London Can Take It! (S)

1940 · Documentary · 9 min. · United Kingdom

6.7

34 votes

6.7

34 votes

The Siege of Pinchgut (Four Desperate Men)

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harry Watt

Cast Aldo Ray · Heather Sears · Neil McCallum · Victor Maddern

Plot Sydney. Matt Kirk (Aldo Ray) is a prisoner intent on clearing his name. Together with fellow prisoners Bert (Victor Maddern) and Luke (Carlo Justini) and Matt's brother Johnny (Neil McCallum),...

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Britain Can Take It! (S)

1940 · Documentary · 8 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Humphrey Jennings · Harry Watt

Plot A shorter domestic version of "London Can Take It", a short documentary film produced by the GPO Film Unit for the Ministry of Information covering less than eighteen hours of...

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The First Days (S)

1939 · Documentary · 23 min. · United Kingdom

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Target for Tonight

1941 · Documentary · 48 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harry Watt

Plot The planning and implementation of an RAF night raid on Germany in World War II, concentrating on a low level mission by a Wellington bomber on an oil storage facility...

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West of Zanzibar

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harry Watt

Cast Anthony Steel · Sheila Sim · William Simons · Orlando Martins

Plot The story of native tribesmen who move towards Mombasa, getting drawn info the world of ivory smuggling.

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North Sea

1938 · Documentary · 32 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harry Watt

Plot A dramatic reconstruction of the fishing trawler 'John Gillman' in trouble in a storm.

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Eureka Stockade

1949 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

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Where No Vultures Fly (Ivory Hunter)

1951 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harry Watt

Cast Anthony Steel · Dinah Sheridan · Harold Warrender · Meredith Edwards

Plot The film is set in East Africa. It is about a game warden called Bob Payton (Anthony Steel). He is horrified by the destruction of wild animals by ivory hunters....

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Twenty-One Miles (S)

1942 · Documentary · 8 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harry Watt

Cast Edward R. Murrow

Plot Documentary short featuring a visit by American newsman Edward R. Murrow to the English town of Dover during the Second World War.

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The Overlanders

1946 · Movie · 91 min. · Australia

Direction Harry Watt

Cast Chips Rafferty · John Nugent Hayward · Daphne Campbell · Jean Blue

Plot 1942: as Australia's Northern Territories face the threat of Japanese invasion, one bold farmer proposes an epic migration, leading thousands of head of cattle across mountains, rivers and arid scrub...

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Nine Men

1943 · Movie · 68 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harry Watt

Cast Jack Lambert · Grant Sutherland · Gordon Jackson · Frederick Piper

Plot The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian...

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Fiddlers Three

1944 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

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