Documentaries: Social Documentaries

Advance Democracy
UK 1938 Dir Ralph Bond-Basil Wright
The Bowes Line
UK 1975 Dir Murray Martin
The Bridge
Netherlands 1928 Dir Joris Ivens
Challenge to Fascism
UK 1938 Dir Helen Biggar
Children at School
UK 1937 Dir Basil Wright
The Children Must Learn
USA 1941 Dir Willard Van Dyke
The City
USA 1939 Dir Willard Van Dyke
Coalface
UK 1935 Dir Alberto Cavalcanti
Contact
UK 1933 Dir Paul Rotha
Conversations with Willard Van Dyke
USA 1981 Dir Amalie R Rothschild
The Cumberland Story
UK 1947 Dir Humphrey Jennings
De Overval (The Silent Raid)
Netherlands 1962 Dir Paul Rotha
A Diary for Timothy
UK 1945 Dir Humphrey Jennings
Dim Little Island
UK 1949 Dir Humphrey Jennings
Drifters
UK 1929 Dir John Grierson
Eastern Valley
UK 1937 Dir Paul Rotha
Enough to Eat
UK 1936 Dir Edgar Anstey
The Face of Britain
UK 1935 Dir Paul Rotha
Fairy of the Phone
UK 1936 Dir William Coldstream
Film and Reality 1895-1939
UK 1942 Dir Alberto Cavalcanti
Fires Were Started
UK 1943 Dir Humphrey Jennings
The Fourth Estate: A Film of a British Newspaper
UK 1940 Dir Paul Rotha
From Marks and Spencer to Marx and Engels
UK 1988 Dir Prod: Amber Films
Frontiers of News
USA 1963 Dir Willard Van Dyke
Glassworks
UK 1978 Dir Murray Martin
Happy in the Morning
UK 1938 Dir Alberto Cavalcanti
Hell Unltd
UK 1936 Dir Norman Mclaren-Helen Biggar
High Row
UK 1974 Dir Murray Martin
Housing Problems
UK 1935 Dir Edgar Anstey-Arthur Elton
Indonesia Calling
Australia 1946 Dir Joris Ivens
Industrial Britain
UK 1931 Dir Robert Flaherty
John Grierson at the National Film Theatre
UK 1959 Dir Hazel Wilkinson
Keeping Time
UK 1983 Dir Sirkka-Liisa Konttiney
Kensal House
UK 1937 Dir Frank Sainsbury
The King's Stamp
UK 1935 Dir William Coldstream
Land of Promise
UK 1946 Dir Paul Rotha
Laurie
UK 1978 Dir Peter Roberts
Listen to Britain
UK 1942 Dir Humphrey Jennings
London Can Take It
UK 1940 Dir Humphrey Jennings
Mai
UK 1975 Dir Murray Martin
Maybe
UK 1969 Dir Murray Martin
New Earth
Netherlands 1934 Dir Joris Ivens
People of Britain
UK 1936 Dir Paul Rotha
Pett and Pott
UK 1934 Dir Alberto Cavalcanti
The Photographer
USA 1948 Dir Willard Van Dyke
The Plow That Broke the Plains
USA 1936 Dir Pare Lorentz
Power and the Land
USA 1940 Dir Joris Ivens
Quayside
UK 1979 Dir Murray Martin
Rain
Netherlands 1929 Dir Joris Ivens
Roadwards
UK 1934 Dir Paul Rotha
Roadways
UK 1934 Dir Stuart Legg-William Coldstream
The Saving of Bill Blewitt
UK 1936 Dir Harry Watt
Seacoal
UK 1985 Dir Murray Martin
Shipyard
UK 1935 Dir Paul Rotha
Song of Ceylon
UK 1935 Dir Basil Wright
The Spanish Earth
USA 1937 Dir Joris Ivens
Spare Time
UK 1939 Dir Humphrey Jennings
Speaking From America
UK 1939 Dir Humphrey Jennings
T Dan Smith
UK 1987 Dir Prod: Amber Films
The River (1938)
USA 1938 Dir Pare Lorentz
Today and Tomorrow
UK 1936 Dir Ruby Grierson
Today We Live: A Film of Life in Britain
UK 1937 Dir Ruby Grierson-Ralph Bond
Traces Left
UK 1983 Dir Alan Lovell
Tyne Lives
UK 1979 Dir Murray Martin
Valley Town
USA 1939 Dir Willard Van Dyke
Words and Actions
UK 1943 Dir Max Anderson
Words For Battle
UK 1941 Dir Humphrey Jennings
Workers' Films of the 1930s
UK 1981 Dir Victoria Wegg-Prosser
World of Plenty
UK 1943 Dir Paul Rotha
World Without End
UK 1953 Dir Paul Rotha
Writing in the Sand
UK 1991 Dir Prod: Amber Films
Last Updated: 04 Oct 2006