Encyclopaedia Britannica Films

Casting her devious filth hex on pig farmers, house painters, and football-playing children, The Dirt Witch delights in making everyone as unclean as...

Marty, a "good boy," experiments with marijuana and experiences "profound mental and emotional disturbances." As in all anti-drug films of this...

Using a scientific discovery approach, the film explains what wind is, how it forms, and its effects on the environment and human life. It...

Life of a teenage outsider: what makes him that way and how his anger flares into violence.

Every year, on June 27th, in a small village in New England, inhabited by no more than 300 people, a lottery is held in which a family is chosen as...

John Canaday analyzes the place of art among the humanities as an expression of man's attempt to define what it means to be a human being. Mr....

An educational film about the nervous system produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, an educational film production company in the 20th century...

Educational film about exclusion and anger meant to be shown in classrooms, with a discussion afterwards.

A short film explaining the difference between amphetamines and barbiturates in sometimes hilarious and often heartbreaking ways, through animation,...

Illustrates the basic principles of space exploration with earth satellites and discusses the present and future uses of such exploration. Live...

A sea captain harbors a mysterious swimmer who comes aboard at night. From the story by Joseph Conrad.

This 1971 color anti-drug use and abuse film was produced by Concept Films and directed by Brian Kellman for Encyclopedia Britannica. “Weed: The...

A romantic tale of a young married couple who have little money to buy each other Christmas presents. And so she cuts off and sells her beautiful...

Deals with the Old Testament as a collection of literary forms. Combines paintings with narrative sculptures to relate the saga of the creation, the...

This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth century Europe. It also Interprets the reforms of...

Thomas Hart Benton demonstrates the main steps in planning and executing a mural: beginning designs, sketches, layout, clay model, small painting,...

Old-timer Billy Slater organizes a rodeo for kids.

Explores the place of alcohol in American society and illustrates its chemical and physiological effects to pose questions about the responsible use...

An introduction to Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist. A world poet-a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and...

Bartleby, an enigmatic man who calmly refuses to carry out his duties, is introduced in this period dramatization of Melville’s haunting story as a...