Arnold Roger Manvell (10 October 1909 – 30 November 1987) was the first director of the British Film Academy (a post he filled for over a decade), author of many books on films and film-making, and authored and co-authored (with Heinrich Fraenkel) many books on Nazi Germany, including biographies of Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring. During World War II he worked in the Ministry of Information, creating propaganda films for the British government. In his career, he also lectured in universities in as many as forty countries in three continents (America, Europe and the Middle East), and made a name as a broadcaster and screenwriter. He joined the Boston University faculty in 1975 teaching film history classes at the College of Communications. Manvell was named University Professor in 1982.
Some books authored or co-authored by Roger Manvell.
The Canaris Conspiracy: The Secret Resistance to Hitler in the German Army, by Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel, 1st Edition (1972).The DreamersThe PassionA Seat at the CinemaAge of Communication: Press, Books, Films, Radio, TVAnimated Film: With Pictures from the Film 'Animal Farm'
Art in Movement: New Directions in AnimationThe Cinema (annual Pelican film review)Design in motionExperiment in the FilmFilm and The Public (annual Pelican film review)The German CinemaHistory of the British FilmImages of Madness: Portrayal of Insanity in the Feature FilmThe International Encyclopedia of FilmLiving Screen: Background to the Film and TelevisionLove Goddesses of the MoviesMasterworks of the German Cinema: The Golem - Nosferatu - M -The Threepenny OperaNew Cinema in BritainNew Cinema in EuropeNew cinema in the U.S.A: The feature film since 1946On the air: A study of broadcasting in sound and televisionThe Penguin Film Review (1946-1949)Progress in TelevisionSelected Comedies: Elizabeth InchbaldShakespeare and the FilmThe Technique of Film AnimationThe Technique of Film MusicTheatre and Film: A Comparative Study of the Two Forms of Dramatic Art and of the Problems of Adaptation of Stage Plays into FilmsThis Age of CommunicationThree British screen plays: "Brief encounter","Odd man out," "Scott of the Antarctic"What is Film?The Canaris ConspiracyThe ConspiratorsDoctor Goebbels: His Life & DeathFilms and the Second World WarGestapoGöringHessHeinrich Himmler: The SS, Gestapo, His Life and CareerHeinrich HimmlerHitler: The Man and The MythThe Hundred Days to HitlerIncomparable Crime, The: Mass Extermination in the Twentieth CenturyThe July Plot, TheSS & Gestapo: Rule of TerrorChaplinElizabeth Inchbald: England's Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London - A Biographical StudyEllen TerryIngmar Bergman, an AppreciationSarah SiddonsThe Trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh