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- The planning and implementation of an RAF night raid on Germany in World War II, concentrating on a low level mission by a Wellington bomber on an oil storage facility by the Rhine.
- Cameramen from Britain's Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945.
- Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
- A young Scottish R. A. F. Gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from occupied territory, and in particular one person who may or may not have been a German Agent.
- Three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces for a planned invasion.
- A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.
- While preparing backstage, an actor tells his castmates about an adventure he had during World War II in the Axis-controlled French colony of Madagascar working for the Resistance and clashing with the collaborationist local police chief.
- After a masterful performance as Othello in a London theater, Ralph Richardson is asked for an autograph by Fred, his dresser. A short while later, Fred has joined the Fleet Air Arm (Fly Navy) and has become a hero, rescuing a pilot from his burning plane. When Fred goes to Buckingham Palace, it's Ralph's turn to ask for an autograph.
- A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
- A film presented by the British War Office for newly arrived World War 2 American soldiers, informing them of British ways.
- The Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including a re-enactment.
- This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration explains to "Timothy" what his family, his neighbors, and his fellow citizens are going through as the war nears its end, and what problems may remain for new Englishmen like Timothy to solve.
- The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
- An Englishman and Frenchman sharing a hotel room discover their children are fighting on the same side, French Resistance and R.A.F.
- Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them understand why they're fighting.
- Epic British wartime documentary film on Malta's role in WW2. The film was produced to coincide with Britain's award of the George Cross to the Maltese and their defenders in April 1942.
- Documentary about the Burma Campaign during World War Two, directed by Roy Boulting.
- Footage from Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda documentary, Triumph of the Will, is juxtaposed with a popular British dance tune to make fun of Hitler, in this playful short subject.
- A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.
- How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.
- A story of a soldier coming home and other typical city-dwellers, is inter-cut with documentary footage of the rebuilding of Coventry.
- This film explains how sneezing in public can spread disease, and shows how using a handkerchief can stop it.
- Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs
- The British government tries to persuade people not to clog up the wartime (World War II) public transportation system by keeping its use to a minimum during "rush hour".
- Lightships (ships serving the functions of a lighthouse) have for centuries been treated as neutral during wartime, but a British lightship during World War II finds the Nazis don't respect the lightships' humanitarian purpose.
- Documentary about the nazi leaders responsible for the war and terror in Europe, voiced in English in the words of Dylan Thomas.
- E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort.
- Produced by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1941, this film explains how to prepare an area of ground for growing your veg, and shows why not having space is simply no excuse.
- Life aboard merchant ships with the Maritime Regiment of the Royal Artillery.
- A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a cocktail bar.
- A study of child delinquency in Scotland
- During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to search for her husband, a British soldier who was fighting in France and who may be among the troops waiting to be rescued.
- Jane Brown gives up being an office typist to work in an aircraft factory.
- A recipe for a wartime vegetable pie.
- Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.
- This propaganda short illustrates the danger of careless talk by naval men. It demonstrates how a sailor's talk of recall is overheard by a waitress who ultimately betrays his ship to a U-boat.
- A dramatized account of Norwegian fishermen outwitting occupational forces during World War
- Tommy Trinder promotes the virtues of the wartime communal British Restaurants.
- This film is structured around British attempts to prevent the V1 missiles from getting through to their targets. Gunners, pilots and barrage balloons are the layers of National Defence, layers of defence that can't be entirely successful.
- This World War II propaganda short encourages British people to "dig for victory," by planting vegetable gardens.
- This short showcases the work of the cameramen who filmed the battles of WWI and early WWII. We also get to see the faces of many of the men who took the pictures. This includes director D.W. Griffith, who shot newsreels in the trenches of WWI.
- How to make porridge using a haybox.
- An American soldier and a British soldier argue about the relative toughness of rugby and American football.
- 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.