Movies

Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.

Account of the development of air transport during wartime and a review of issues to be solved in regulating international civil aviation.

This short film examines the Japan that emerged at the beginning of the 1900s and was firmly established as an industrialized nation by the outbreak...

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

This short documentary about the Canadian seamen who manned Canada's eastern ports during WWII is the first film in the Canada Carries On series. The...

A record of an educational experiment in the small town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire.

Short film produced and directed in 1945 for the National Film Board of Canada series The World in Action. Over its nearly 21-minute running time,...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...

Canadian documentary on war time Italy.

The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with...

Shows new methods in treating those afflicted with mental health issues. Contrasts past treatment regimes where people were locked away out of sight...

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Commissioned by the Festival of Britain to show the similarities and contrasts between 1851 and 1951, by means of the Great Exhibition and the...

Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a...

A documentary looking at the British Government's atomic weapons design, construction and testing on the Australian Monte Bello Islands in 1951.

A short GPO documentary showing how undersea telephone cables are repaired.

Spotlight on the Colonies places particular emphasis on the economic benefits that continued investment and development within the colonies will...

Sharjah airport in the 1930's showing the airport, town, Emirate and Imperial Airways staff. An early British documentary produced by many pioneers...