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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.

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...

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

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

Short WW II documentary

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

Documentary by Humphrey Jennings

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

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

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

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

Documentary about an average day during the Blitz.

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.

How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.

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 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...

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