Sili na Vaʻaia Mai Crown Film Unit

A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the...

British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War...

An account of the first expedition to the Queen Maud Land region of Antarctica.

This is the authentic story of a bombing raid on Germany... how it is planned and how it is executed. Every person seen in the picture is a member of...

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

An African tribe in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana work to build a maternity hospital, with the aid of government officials, and against the...

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

The occupation of the Channel Islands.

A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

Documentary short about how Britain is improving after WWII and what the populace can do to help.

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...

Reported cases of sexually transmitted disease took a sharp rise during and after World War II, but as this film testifies, sexual license amongst...

The ill effects on children's bodies and minds of the chaotic conditions being countered by the endeavours of UNESCO. The film emphasises especially...

Documentary by Humphrey Jennings

British educational documentary film about the principal instruments in the modern symphony orchestra, illustrated through Benjamin Britten's...

Focuses on the work of the Air Transport Auxiliary or ATA. By 1941, literally hundreds of RAF fighters and bombers needed to be flown each day...

Documentary about an average day during the Blitz.

A story acted and narrated by men of the Merchant Navy illustrates the way their war is fought: a merchant ship in convoy is sunk by a torpedo; the...