Soundtrack: Benjamin Britten

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.

Direction Derek Jarman

Cast Nathaniel Parker · Tilda Swinton · Laurence Olivier · Patricia Hayes

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti

Cast W.H. Auden · Montagu Slater

Plot Coal Face (1935) was the first influential film to be made by the GPO Film Unit. It continued the experimentation with sound effects and music first initiated in Song of...

Direction Lotte Reiniger

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Ann Harding · Basil Rathbone · Binnie Hale · Bruce Seton

Plot Carol wins the lottery, but unfortunately her sudden wealth leads to a disagreement with her fiancé Ronald, and the two break up. Carol quickly falls in love with the romantic...

Direction Tony Palmer

Cast Benjamin Britten · Leonard Bernstein · Sviatoslav Richter · Janet Baker

Direction Jay Rosenblatt

Cast Boris Karloff

Plot Mary Shelley’s writing combines with Boris Karloff’s performance to re-work the myth of Frankenstein. In five minutes the “monster” moves through the very human journey from self-hatred to self-acceptance.

Direction Peter Hall

Cast John Graham-Hall · Patricia Johnson · Felicity Palmer · Elizabeth Gale

Plot When Lady Billows realizes no girls in town are worthy of the May Queen title, she crowns virtuous Albert Herring, the greengrocer's son, as the village's May King.

Direction J. B. Holmes

Cast Geoffrey Tandy · Norman Wooland

Direction Charles Rogers

Cast Roger Jerome · David Hartley · Brian Handley · Bernard Dickerson