Jack Cardiff Movies

A short that follows the legend of Wilhelm Gorkeit of Tellikon (William Tell), the legendary archer and hero from Switzerland.

The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was shot on real...

Like so many other actors, Ava Gardner hated to watch her films. She said that the woman on the screen wasn't her. But all films tell two stories:...

An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.

Sir Ernest Pease is a self-important scientist sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a...

Scott, a poor farm boy, is given a wild pony from a wealthy ranch owner's herd to ride to and from school. Scott and his pony soon become an...

While investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the victim's twin sister.

The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman...

How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to...

An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.

“Travelogue on the city of Petra. Traces four civilisations, each of which found value in re-establishing the life of this city, whose temples...

Part 1 of a documentary about when Alexander Korda was asked about who might replace him when he has resigned as a chief of the production of the...

Technicolor scenes from an Indian Durbar, held for the Maharaja of Alwar in Rajasthan.

Indian village life, including a Brahmin initiation ceremony and a Hindu wedding.

The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.

A 1948 animated film of Hein Heckroth’s painted storyboards, with the Red Shoes ballet as an alternate angle.

A documentary on "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp."

Documentary about the making of Powell and Pressburger's 1947 film "Black Narcissus."

A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.

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