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.
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119 votes
7.0
119 votes
London Can Take It! (S)
1940 · Documentary · 9 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Humphrey Jennings · Harry Watt
Cast Quentin Reynolds
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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
Direction Humphrey Jennings · Pat Jackson · Harry Watt
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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
Direction Harry Watt
Cast Chips Rafferty · Jane Barrett · Jack Lambert · Peter Illing
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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
Direction Harry Watt
Cast Tommy Trinder · Frances Day · Sonnie Hale · Francis L. Sullivan
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