Shell Film Unit Movies

A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and...

A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts...

A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the work of supply ships to North Sea oil rigs. Described by members of the crew, it focusses on the...

A documentary demonstrating the evolution of lubrication since Egyptian times and how modern machines have advanced.

A documentary tracing the development of the helicopter from the original Da Vinci drawings to the modern versions actually in service in 1951.

A BAFTA award nominated abridged documentary depicting the issues facing engineers delivering high speed flight. It was initially made in three parts...

Highlights of the Belgian Grand Prix from Spa-Francorchamps on June 5th, 1955.

The main industrial processes concerned with the shaping of metal under pressure.

A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for...

A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.

This final in the three part documentary series looks at the capabilities of modern commercial aircraft to regularly travel faster than the speed of...

Part two in a three part documentary series looking at how supersonic flight might be achieved in the future.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary reviewing the 1958 Alpine Rally.

A documentary featuring the Vickers "Valiant" aircraft in flight and on the ground.

A short introduction to Indian classical dancing.

A documentary investigating the science, aerodynamics and technologies involved in enabling aircraft to travel at speeds approaching or surpassing...

An introduction to the sport of flying model aircraft. Made with assistance of the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the famous Italian motor race from April 26th, 1953.

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.