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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...

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.

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

How Britain coped with a Christmas during the 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.

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

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

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

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

A documentary about how a bill for education (also known as the children's charter) passed by the British government in the 1940's will help all...

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

The occupation of the Channel Islands.

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

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.

A woman blames herself for her husband's death. To overcome her grief and her guilt she becomes a nurse but then a patient dies while under her care.