Roy Harris
Directing
Known For
After his mother kills herself, Wallace Kirkman struggles in his relationships with the women in his life.
Women and Wallace
An impressionistic BBC documentary portraying a northern English city at dawn through street scenes and recorded voices, blending observation and sound montage to capture postwar working-class life.
Morning in the Streets
A documentary looking at Britain's new diesel "Fell" 10,000 locomotive.
The Fell Locomotive
Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.
Northern Towers
In Prison (1957) is a BBC documentary examining daily life inside HMP Strangeways Prison in Manchester. Filmed within the institution, the film observes prisoners and officials as part of a closed system housing hundreds of inmates, focusing on routines, discipline, confinement, and the psychological effects of incarceration. Avoiding dramatization, the documentary presents prison life as an enclosed social world, shaped by regulation, isolation, and repetition, offering a rare contemporary view of Britain’s penal system in the postwar period.