Alec Guinness Movies

"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's releases for the 1967-68 film season under a "five...

A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young...

Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block and he needs a new play, so he takes an opportunity to observe his upper class neighbors of 1900 Paris. There is...

Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their...

Using still pictures and newsreel footage, this short film tells the life story of Russian author Boris Pasternak, who was forced by the Russian...

Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's...

A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love.

A documentary about the film roles of British actor Alec Guinness. Volume 8 in a series produced by Janus Films.

It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...

Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy....

Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an essay John Menick published in Frieze in 2011,...

A documentary video that profiles the life of David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia.

This short film depicts how a small Canadian city, bearing the name of Stratford and by a river Avon, created its own renowned Shakespearean theatre....

Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor.

The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.

England of Thomas Rowlandson's day, seen through his drawings and cartoons.

A co-production of Columbia Pictures and USC’s Department of Cinema, this 1958 educational short hosted by William Holden explores the art of...

Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...