Michael Powell Movies

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the...

Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack...

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

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to...

The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor health, learning for her becomes unbearably...

Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday...

When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after...

A way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.

A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a...

Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with...

Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian...

Thelma Schoonmaker on Martin Scorsese and 'The King of Comedy'

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

A corrupt bookmaker inherits a fortune by killing his step-daughter's husband and framing her lover.

A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious...

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds...

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved...

John and his class go on a school trip to the Tower of London. While he is there he loses his pet mouse and vows to return and find her later. Back...

A Royal Air Force (RAF) airman who dies during a mission has left a letter to be sent to his mother upon his death.

Essentially a re-release of Michael Powell's 'The Edge of the World (1937)' , but with colour 'bookends' in which director and actors revisit the...