E. V. H. Emmett

A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Annabella

Documentary highlighting how land has been reclaimed for agriculture in Scotland.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clive Brook

The Secrets of Life series (1934-50) may not conform to modern expectations of nature filmmaking, inclined as it is towards giving cute fluffy...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jack Hulbert

Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Will Fyffe

A documentary on the island off the French Riviera where 'bathing in the buff' isn't just practiced, it's highly encouraged!

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Leslie Banks

A light-hearted look at the history of the Sea Scouts and the many skills its members can acquire.

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Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Formby

The world of fungi captured by micro-cinematography and time-lapse photography.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Hulbert

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Merle Oberon

On the search for weird and amazing creatures living on the seashores... This short movie played before The Thief of Bagdad (1940) during its...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Courtenay

This ultra-kitsch documentary goes behind the scenes at Murray's Cabaret Club, where Christine Keeler was later a showgirl.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

Shipwrights, plate-fitters and riveters are busy at work in shipyards around Britain, but make time to talk to well-known newsreader, E.V.H. Emmett,...

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Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

Armand and Michaela Denis visit the Barrier Reef and explore the mysteries of life there - animals, birds, fish and plants, the underwater life....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Armand Denis

Two Brits—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sid James

Part of a travelogue series, this films visits to Derry, the Giant’s Causeway, Carrick-a-Rede, Mount Stewart and Belfast.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

Hitchcock went the wrong way! Head south by southwest with this travelogue from Bath to Cornwall.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

A retired Major's efforts to hone his golf skills are thwarted by the diminutive but defiant common daisy.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

Tourist promo film extolling the delights of Birmingham and the Midlands, with a sprinkling of arch one-liners.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Sellers

"If they were as rare as orchids we would probably rave about them" opens this film in the Secrets of Nature series, directed by the prolific Mary...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

The perky Cockneys are London sparrows, who star in this natural history film.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

History - and natural history - filmed on location in Selborne, East Hampshire. This unusual edition of the long-running series Secrets of Life tells...

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Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

A Donatello Golden Plate winning documentary on the Appenines, and on the adventures of a young racoon.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

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Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

A Secrets of Life short.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

A Secrets of Life short.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

Explores the natural history of the otter, depicted through the fictitious account of a day in the life of Otto the Otter and his mother. The...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

Focuses upon the journey of child refugees from the Basque Country to temporary accommodation near Southampton, Hampshire [England].

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Merle Oberon

Genre: Drama

Cast: Natasha Parry

Genre: Drama

Cast: Natasha Parry

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stanley Holloway

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Loder

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E. V. H. Emmett

Genre: Documentary

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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jerry Verno

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kenneth Wolstenholme

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kenneth Wolstenholme

Genre: War

Cast: G.H. Mulcaster

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Cast: Dora Bryan