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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...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

A dramatised account of Norwegian fishermen outwitting occupational forces during World War II, directed by Jiří Weiss and written by...

Documentary by Humphrey Jennings

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

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

Reported cases of sexually transmitted disease took a sharp rise during and after World War II, but as this film testifies, sexual license amongst...

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...

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

A short film about how builders help contribute to the war effort.

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