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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chesney Allen

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Gravett

Depicts the aftermath of German air raids on Britain with V1 rockets during World War II.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fletcher Markle

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

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Cast: Sam Kydd

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...

Genre: Documentary

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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.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Redgrave

Short public information film showing housewives' efficient and hygienic methods of food storage.

Genre: Documentary

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Documentary style presentation of the work of RAF Coastal Command. Shows their work in protecting convoys and attacking enemy aircraft, ships and...

Genre: War

Cast: Roger Hunter

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Malcolm Sargent

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Mervyn

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

Genre: Documentary

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A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Hylton

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Burgess Meredith

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: E.R. Chadwick

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...

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Terry-Thomas

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kathleen Byron

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Percy Charles Pickard

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cecil Trouncer