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- A group of children play at being "Apaches" on an English farm, ignoring all safety precautions. One by one they die a variety of gruesome deaths.
- Archive footage from both British and German sources to tell the story of the defense of Britain during World II.
- This 47-minute documentary, financed by HRH's government, won an Oscar in the special category, and most of it was later edited into a 1953 two-segment documentary called "Savage World" by the same crew of film-makers listed on this film. The story here is about an African tribe that is working to build a maternity hospital, with the aid of government officials, and against the opposition of some tribal members.
- Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding. The film gives an idea of the business of building a ship - the largest moving thing made by man - from the naval architects who design her to the workmen, the shipbuilders in the yard, through to a ship's launching.
- An educational film warning children not to go with strangers.
- In this dramatised documentary about venereal disease, pregnant Joan realises that she has syphilis and must confront her husband Ken with this fact.
- A short and informative public service announcement that deals with the A.I.D.S. epidemic back in the 1980s destined to British audiences. Directed by Nicolas Roeg and with the voice of Sir John Hurt narrating facts about the disease, this short raised awareness to the public about A.I.D.S., and how to avoid it back in a time when anything related to the disease was considered a death sentence.
- A comedic look at the history of the British coastline.
- Protect and Survive was a public information series on civil defence produced by the British government during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was intended to inform British citizens on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack, and consisted of a mixture of pamphlets, radio broadcasts, and public information films. The series had originally been intended for distribution only in the event of dire national emergency, but provoked such intense public interest that the pamphlets were authorised for general release.
- The story of controversial package holiday company, Club 18-30. The company was said to offer drunken mayhem, outrageous nights out and sex. The documentary traces its rise due to shock advertising schemes and an untapped market.
- Short public information film warning children of the dangers of talking to and going off with strangers.
- In 1954, the BBC produced an outstanding documentary series on aerial warfare from 1935 to 1950, comprising fifteen half hour shows that was aired on the first Monday after Remembrance Sunday. Taking two years to make, and compiled from nearly 12 million feet of Allied and enemy film footage, there had been little to compare with it in terms of scale, depth and content. This landmark series represents an important piece of television history and will give every viewer an honest telling of the development of airpower. Some of the highlights include; amazing footage taken from the nose of a Mosquito during low level attacks, camera's placed on the wings of various aircraft and a dozen other earth grazing operations. This series will make your hair stand up on end.
- A biographical short film about fashion designer Zandra Rhodes.
- A haunting PSA about keeping matches out of the hands of children.
- Docudrama showing the work of British agents with the French "resistance" during the war, acted by actual agents. Includes details of their training, tactics and sabotage activities.
- A vocational guidance film showing young people informally discussing their work and progress, and giving their candid opinions of jobs in a store, in factories and on the farm. The film selects several young people at a discotheque in the Liverpool area, and shows their jobs (girl window-dresser in a department store, assembly-line workers and an apprentice in a car works, a trainee farmer and a girl sewing-machinist in a clothing factory).
- Public information film, comparing A.I.D.S. to an iceberg, reminding viewers there's more to the disease than they think.
- Warning children not to play near 'dark and lonely' water, a horror film style look and voice-over is used in this film to highlight the dangers.
- A history of the eleven years which Thatcher spent as Prime Minister of the UK.
- When a couple move into a new apartment they find magical help from two strangers to redecorate.
- "What does H.M.P. stand for? Himalayan Mounted Police? Could equally be Hot Meat Pie, or Honesty, Modesty, and Purity". Well in actual fact it stands for Her Majesty's Prisons, and it is inside where we are a fly on the wall for this film.
- The men and women of the Royal Observer Corps respond to a nuclear attack.
- Michael Palin explains how people can get themselves killed.
- Charley the character from "New Town" is back again in "Your Very Good Health" a British produced animation explaining the benefits of a National Health Service.
- Short documentary about Sir Terence Conran an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.
- Series of magazine programmes produced between 1968 and 1971, by the Central Office of Information for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Also released under the name "No Two the Same" for the production of foreign language versions.
- A musical celebration of British innovations within a typical home.
- On February 25, 1961, Queen Elizabeth II landed at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport to start a 10-day official visit to Iran in response to the Shah's visit to Britain two years earlier.
- "When In The Country" is a stylish British public safety film, informing you how to behave whilst visiting the English countryside.
- This Week In Britain was a news series produced by the UK government's Central Office of Information (COI) in behalf of the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Relations Office for distribution to overseas TV and cinema networks. Each episode was a 5-minute factual report covering a single topic. It ran from 1959 to 1980 and was black-and white until changing to colour in the early 1970s, sometime around episode 700. The numbering suggests these were issued at weekly or similar intervals. Some episodes appear on various of the British Film Institutes's (BFI) series of "The COI Collection" DVD sets issued from 2010.
- Teaching people how to drive safely at night.
- Documentary about how the Central Film Library in London distributes films throughout the UK for education (and propaganda) purposes.
- A simple film stating the need for more foster parents. Gives glimpses of the tragedy which comes to some children, how they are helped by the Boarding-Out Officer and placed in a "short-stay" Home until foster parents can be found.
- A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation in February 1971
- A coal mine manager, with the agreement of the union and workers, revitalizes a Cumberland coal mine during 1941, opening up an abandoned coal seam out at sea and bringing in new equipment.
- A broad cross-section of life in Edinburgh on a typical day - the Edinburgh of the railway fireman, coal-man, student, sailor, office worker and businessman.
- Edgar Lustgarten investigates the causes of a fatal accident on a motorway, in the course of which, many aspects of road safety are revealed.
- Two businessmen make a pact to end it all. After several failed attempts, something happens which changes their mind.
- Dramatised documentary stressing the importance of motorcycle training for teenagers.
- Recently demobbed Hector Andrews fights a local election to stop the glen in his village, Cadisburn, being sold for development. A short film made to emphasise the importance of individuals taking part in local government.
- Impressions of British art and culture.
- The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.