Bill Forsyth Movies

One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between...

Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils...

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of...

Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as...

Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless...

A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."

Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the...

A look at how the landscape of the Scottish Highlands has been shaped by man.

Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."

A look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'. Chris Menges discusses his early career in...

An interview for Scottish television of film director Bill Forsyth

The life and work of the Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

A look at Scotland's first country park.

Highland boat-building, showing intermediate processes of clinker- and carvel built boats, as well as those involved in ferroconcrete and steel...

A look at the manufacture and use of Polar diesel engines.

A young would-be writer searches the street of Glasgow for his missing girlfriend.

The industries of the Scottish Highlands.