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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...

Perhaps the characters in this film are stupid or even laughable. Before YOU laugh at them remember that people behaving like them often cause...

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

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

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...

In a follow up to 'A Welcome to Britain', Burgess Meredith returns to look at a post-war Britain.

How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.

A Letter From Ulster (1943). Northern Ireland's greatest film director Brian Desmond Hurst directed the film and his assistant director was fellow...

This short post-war film was made to inform people how to address a letter correctly.

An Englishman and Frenchman sharing a hotel room discover their children are fighting on the same side, French Resistance and R.A.F.

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

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

The occupation of the Channel Islands.

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

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