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90 Years of Craft,
Curiosity & Film.
World Wide Group began life as World Wide Pictures in the 1930s; a production company that believed stories told with skill and heart could change minds. That belief still drives everything we do.
90+
Year of heritage
5
Major awards
1935
Founded
From World Wide Pictures to World Wide Group.
The company was founded in the 1930s as World Wide Pictures; one of Britain's pioneering independent production companies, making documentary and short films at a time when cinema was the most powerful medium in the world. Over nine decades, we evolved from a film production house into a full-service global creative, events and content agency, while never losing the production instinct that started it all.
Our heritage is not just history; it is a live credential. The disciplines that won us an Oscar in 1955 are the same ones that help us deliver cinematic brand content, broadcast-quality live events, and multi-language content distribution for global organisations today.
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, 1955
Thursday's Children; produced by World Wide Pictures and directed by Guy Brenton and Lindsay Anderson, narrated by Richard Burton; won the Oscar at the 27th Academy Awards. The Academy Film Archive preserved the film in 2005. It remains one of British documentary cinema's most celebrated short works.
1930s
World Wide Pictures founded
Established as an independent British film production company, producing documentary and short films for cinema and broadcast.
1954
Thursday's Children produced
World Wide Pictures champions Thursday's Children; a documentary about deaf children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate; taking it on from silent rough-cut and bringing it to distribution.
1955
Academy Award won
Thursday's Children wins the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 27th Academy Awards; one of the most prestigious recognitions in film.
2005
Academy Film Archive preservation
The Academy Film Archive formally preserves Thursday's Children, cementing its place in the permanent record of world cinema.
Today
World Wide Group — 90+ years on
Now delivering live events, hybrid broadcast, cinematic brand video and content strategy globally; with offices in Leeds, London and California. BAFTA, Oscar and Emmy-recognised. Women-owned and globally delivered.
DOCUMENTARY FILM
Thursday's Children
Watch our Oscar-winning 1954 documentary narrated by Richard Burton - and explore the story of how it came to be.
LICENSING & RIGHTS
Royalties
We hold rights to a number of historic documentary works. Licensing available to broadcasters, researchers an cultural institutions at BFI-aligned rates.
