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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In this dramatised documentary about venereal disease, pregnant Joan realises that she has syphilis and must confront her husband Ken with this fact.
- 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 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 short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation in February 1971
- 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.
- Short public information film warning children of the dangers of talking to and going off with strangers.
- 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.
- 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 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).
- A history of the eleven years which Thatcher spent as Prime Minister of the UK.
- Archive footage from both British and German sources to tell the story of the defense of Britain during World II.
- Public information film, comparing A.I.D.S. to an iceberg, reminding viewers there's more to the disease than they think.
- No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain's economics. Meet Charley, the portrait of a nation. At the end of the 1940s the Central Office of Information commissioned Halas and Batchelor to make seven films about policies of the post-war Labour Government. Charley was cast as the figurehead of the campaign, learning about mining, farming, national insurance, and even schooling via a son at the end of the series. This short looks at the Marshall Plan, and makes the most explicit link between character and country as his life story stands in for 270 years of British economic history.
- Two businessmen make a pact to end it all. After several failed attempts, something happens which changes their mind.
- This cartoon propaganda short by Halas and Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.
- Burgess Meredith had hosted and produced a documentary about Britain for the millions of American servicemen in World War Two. After the war he again hosted and produced this sequel. It includes cameos from his then wife, Paulette Goddard and Christine Norden.
- Edgar Lustgarten investigates the causes of a fatal accident on a motorway, in the course of which, many aspects of road safety are revealed.
- 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.
- Dramatised documentary stressing the importance of motorcycle training for teenagers.
- The building and launch of the British-made Blue Streak rocket.
- Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British citizens.
- In the sixth in the series, Charley is excited when he inherits a half share in a farm, but does not realize what hard work this is going to be.
- Michael Palin explains how people can get themselves killed.
- Short film warning parents not to leave their children unattended around water.
- 1974 animated, educational public service short about the basics of labeling consumer food products, Writ/Dir Richard Taylor for "Housewife's Trust" and the "Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food".
- 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.
- Film warning people to ring the coastguard if they spot trouble at sea. Joe and Petunia, an animated Yorkshire couple who witness a man in distress and mistake his signals for larking about.
- The tax man explains to a citizen how his pound is divided among public services in post WWII Britain. As he tells the man in a humorous fashion, clips are shown of hospitals, schools and factories. Shown at the Imperial War Museum in London.
- Warning of the dangers of sneezing.
- A biographical short film about fashion designer Zandra Rhodes.
- The contrasting behavior and experiences of two young motorcyclists, one of whom follows road safety procedures and the other not.
- 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.
- Short telling people to be more careful when driving at night.
- When a couple move into a new apartment they find magical help from two strangers to redecorate.
- A comedic look at the history of the British coastline.
- Dramatized events in the life of a village bobby; intended as a recruitment tool.
- Chronicling the romantic life of Britain's royal family in the 20th century, this documentary explores the history of royal marriages and asks what's next for a royal family increasingly battered by media pressures and whose business is shared with the whole world.
- "When In The Country" is a stylish British public safety film, informing you how to behave whilst visiting the English countryside.
- Documentary on town planning in which an architect looks at the history of Dunfermline, Scotland and its possible future development.
- An educational film warning children not to go with strangers.
- 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.
- "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.
- Public information film reminding parents not leave their children home alone, especially on Christmas