Where to watch Basil Wright in the UK
Find every Basil Wright film and TV show streaming, free, or available to rent in the UK. Updated daily — verified 5 May 2026.
Basil Wright - was a documentary filmmaker, film historian, film critic and teacher. During World War II, Wright worked only as a producer, first at John Grierson's Film Centre before joining The Crown Film Unit between 1945 and 1946 as producer-in-charge. Among the best known films he produced for Crown are Humphrey Jennings' A Diary for Timothy (1946) and A Defeated People (1946) and Instruments of the Orchestra (1946) featuring Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.[1] Returning to direction in the early 1950s, his films included Waters of Time (1951) made for the Fe…
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- A Diary for Timothy (1945) Producer
- Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1974) as Self
- Grierson (1973) as Self
- The Immortal Land (1958) Director
- This Is Colour (1942) Producer
- Coal Face (1935) Director of Photography
- It Might Be You (1946) Producer
- London Can Take It! (1940) Associate Producer
- Industrial Britain (1931) Additional Photography
- The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci (1953) Producer
- London Scrapbook (1942) Producer
- Night Mail (1936) Director
- Every Day (1929) Cast
- Rainbow Dance (1936) Producer
- The Green Girdle (1941) Producer
- The Rape of Czechoslovakia (1939) Writer
- The Song of Ceylon (1934) Director
- The Face of Scotland (1938) Director
- Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs (1934) as Vicar (uncredited)
- One Wish Too Many (1956) Producer
- A Defeated People (1946) Producer
- Modern Orphans of the Storm: The Story of the Refugee Basque Children (1937) Director
- World Without End (1953) Director
- O'er Hill and Dale (1932) Director
- Men of Africa (1940) Producer
- The Country Comes to Town (1933) Director
- The Channel Islands 1940-1945 (1945) Producer
- Conquest (1930) Editor
- Neuro Psychiatry 1943 (1943) Producer
- Children at School (1937) Director
- Advance Democracy! (1938) Producer
- Waters of Time (1951) Director
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Most-watched Basil Wright films currently: A Diary for Timothy (1945), Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1974), Grierson (1973), The Immortal Land (1958), This Is Colour (1942).
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