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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…

  • Directing
  • Born 12 June 1907
  • Died 14 October 1987 (age 80)
  • Frieth, Buckinghamshire, England
  • 32 credits

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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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