Donald Alexander

Movies

Here's Health
Director
A film about the National Health Act that established the NHS, and how it benefitted communities. It starts with a bleak look, when coordinated patient care is non-existent, patients cannot see the right specialist when they need to and a family is split up over Christmas.
Dover, Spring 1947
Producer
Dover made over: this quirky and pointed public information film reveals how the heavily-bombed and shelled Kent town was being replanned after the war. The filmmakers cleverly and entertainintly capture our attention by opening on travelogue cliches that they quickly undercut. It's not white cliffs and rolling hills they want to tell us about. It's present-day Dover - remaking itself in the crisp freshness of a postwar spring.
Fair Rent
Producer
The nice young couples rent dilapidated rooms from mean landlord & lady until the appeal to the rent tribunal gets their rent cut by six shillings.
Cotton Come Back
Director
A short film trying to stop people in the North of England from worrying about losing their cotton industry jobs.
Birth-day
Producer
Encourages mothers to seek medical advice from the earliest stages of pregnancy and to take advantage of existing maternity services.
Five and Under
Director
Childcare for working women during the Second World War.
Dundee
Writer
Profile of the city of Dundee, Scotland and its industries.
Dundee
Director
Profile of the city of Dundee, Scotland and its industries.
Wealth of a Nation
Director
A documentary examining the industries of Scotland, new and old.
Eastern Valley
Director
Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.
Today We Live
Cinematography
Two case studies highlighting the work of the National Council of Social Service: the conversion of a barn into a village hall in South Cerney, Gloucestershire, and the building of an occupational centre in the depressed mining village of Pentre in the Rhondda Valley, Wales.