Bill Forsyth Movies

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

A look at English people who have made their home in Scotland.

The industries of the Scottish Highlands.

Abraham lives deep in the heart of an industrial wasteland. His only companion is a giant machine. Inside the machine is a man and a woman who take...

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...

An interview for Scottish television of film director Bill Forsyth

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 portrait of the Scottish artist Sir William Gillies.

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

The scenery and wildlife around Loch Lomond, Scotland, and the people who live and work there.

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

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

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