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A former leader of the French Resistance finds that one of his fellow actors looks like a detestable official he knew in Madagascar during the war....

A young, Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from Nazi-occupied territory. They are particularly interested in one...

On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five...

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the...

World War II propaganda film.

Surrealism, avant-garde sound montage, and irreverent wit might be the last thing you'd expect from a government-sponsored film about wartime...

Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.

Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas.

A 1941 Ministry of Information propaganda film set to the tune of The Lambeth Walk, a popular song from the musical Me and My Girl.

An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and...

A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.

An exposure of the fallacy of race myths; Nazi and Japanese theories about pure blood and master races are contrasted with scientific facts of mixed...

A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).

A documentary edited by Jiří Weiss on the role of Soviet women in the Second World War

Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of...

Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them...

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

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

Documentary short featuring a visit by American newsman Edward R. Murrow to the English town of Dover during the Second World War.

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