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A young, Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from Nazi-occupied territory. They are particularly interested in one...

A former leader of the French Resistance finds that one of his fellow actors looks like a detestable official he knew in Madagascar during the war....

On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five...

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the...

An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and...

Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of...

World War II propaganda film.

Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.

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

Surrealism, avant-garde sound montage, and irreverent wit might be the last thing you'd expect from a government-sponsored film about wartime...

A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.

Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant...

Short WW II documentary

Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas.

How to make porridge using a haybox.

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

A 1941 Ministry of Information propaganda film set to the tune of The Lambeth Walk, a popular song from the musical Me and My Girl.

Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.

Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London. ...

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.