Movies: British Council

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today....

Rufus is a child with an extraordinary obsession: a burning, inþamed desire for anything red. Driven by this impassioned, scarlet fixation, which he can neither control nor understand, he shifts through life in a whirlwind of redness, entirely in the...

A documentary on modern British farming....

Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together to discuss, rehearse and re-enact their memories 35 years after the conflict....

Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer....

Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage....

Butt-sniffing action abounds as five otherwise ordinary members of the public get in touch with their primal instincts....

'Divided We Scroll' is an eerie depiction of our intimate relationships with technology....

Miranda's Letter takes as a starting point the 'missing women' in Shakespeare, in this instance, The Tempest, and imagines what Miranda's mother would have wanted to say to her daughter. Commissioned as part of Shakespeare Lives 2016....

As part of the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the sights and culture of a bygone India. Filmed between 1899-1947, and preserved in the BFI National Archive ...

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making and broadcasting of pedagogical radio shows on the BBC....

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony....

The manufacture of cables for transmitting electric power is shown. Copper bars are rolled and drawn into wire, which is twisted into strands, and covered for insulation and protection with layers of rubber, lead, cloth and paper. The completed cable...

A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson....

Dramatically told, English Criminal Justice takes us on a journey through the principles and procedures of the various courts of law in Britain....

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel"....

Part of the Junior Biology series, this study of pin mould is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage....

Historically, the queer community has not been portrayed in mainstream culture as being capable of protecting children and young people. Yet my uncle Ricardo, himself an openly gay man, was the ultimate guardian of my childhood....

A Record of the Great Social Experiment of "Evacuation". During the first three days of war one million children were moved to places of safety in the country in order to avoid areas which might have made targets for enemy bombers. When schools re-op...

A look at the manufacture of optical lenses, and their many uses throughout the different industries; from microscopes to spectacles to full use in the war effort....