Crown Film Unit Movies

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...

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

A World War II drama-documentary showing the struggles of Merchant Navy seamen following an attack by a U-Boat. Western Approaches is a vast area of...

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...

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...

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

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

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

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

A short documentary style film it depicts the story of The British obtaining a special tool from America to help with the building of a tank.

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

Short documentary on the use of the V-1 Flying Bomb during the German bombings of London.

The occupation of the Channel Islands.

The Railwaymen shows the public information film moving onto a peacetime footing, and is one of the first films to bear the name of the Central...