Crown Film Unit Movies

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

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.

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

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...

A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the...

The ill effects on children's bodies and minds of the chaotic conditions being countered by the endeavours of UNESCO. The film emphasises especially...

A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete...

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

A woman blames herself for her husband's death. To overcome her grief and her guilt she becomes a nurse but then a patient dies while under her care.

A documentary short on The Festival in London.

How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.

Reported cases of sexually transmitted disease took a sharp rise during and after World War II, but as this film testifies, sexual license amongst...

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...

An account of the first expedition to the Queen Maud Land region of Antarctica.

Documentary about an average day during the Blitz.

A portrait of Hawick, pronounced 'hoik' by the locals, a town in the Scottish Borders. The film was shot in Technichrome - a vibrant colour system...

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

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

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

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...