James McKechnie

A look at the flourishing winter sports business within Scotland.

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A profile of the Scottish inventor and his work on developing the steam engine.

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An express freight train links manufacturers with their customers at the other end of Britain.

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The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.

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A documentary short on The Festival in London.

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An attempted evocation of the tradition of British printing, in a series of dramatised impressions: the discovery of a new method of printing in France and its development in England. The beauty of language is illustrated by excerpts from the works of Shakespeare and Dickens.

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The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him

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Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.

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A look at the manufacture of propellers in a foundry in Ayrshire, Scotland.

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After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.

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Travelogue following a journey from Inverness to Skye in Scotland.

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At the height of the Roman Civil War, an aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra, whom he teaches how to rule Egypt.

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In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.

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Four types of visual interpretation of four songs by Karol Szymanowski. Polish words by Julian Tuwin, English translation by Jan Sliwinski.

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Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas.

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During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.

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Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.

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General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

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A look at the Scottish town of Aberfeldy during the Second World War as troops arrive on leave.

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Anti nazi short.

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A British documentary on the good health of the people in Scotland.

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A look at Cally House, a wartime evacuation school established by the Glasgow Education Authority in Gatehouse-of-Fleet.

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An overview of sports played in Scotland, including the benefits to its citizens and the facilities used.

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Production of steel components at William Beardmore & Co's Parkhead Forge, Glasgow. Made for screening at the 1938 Empire Exhibition.

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