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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.
A Diary for Timothy
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...
Ferry Pilot
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...
Merchant Seamen
Documentary style presentation of the work of RAF Coastal Command. Shows their work in protecting convoys and attacking enemy aircraft, ships and...
Coastal Command
Dramatised documentary, intended for schoolchildren, showing the work of a youth employment officer.
Jack of What Trade?
British educational documentary film about the principal instruments in the modern symphony orchestra, illustrated through Benjamin Britten's...
Instruments of the Orchestra
A Letter From Ulster (1943). Northern Ireland's greatest film director Brian Desmond Hurst directed the film and his assistant director was fellow...
A Letter from Ulster
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
The Silent Village
In a follow up to 'A Welcome to Britain', Burgess Meredith returns to look at a post-war Britain.
A Yank Comes Back
A short film about how builders help contribute to the war effort.
Builders
British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War...
Fires Were Started
A World War II drama-documentary showing the struggles of Merchant Navy seamen following an attack by a U-Boat. Western Approaches is a vast area of...
Western Approaches
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.
Life in Her Hands
Humphrey Jennings’s Crown Film Unit short on the summer 1944 V-1 “doodlebug” campaign, tracking a salvo from the coast toward...
The Eighty Days
Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...
Words for Battle
Perhaps the characters in this film are stupid or even laughable. Before YOU laugh at them remember that people behaving like them often cause...
Mr Jones Takes the Air
A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.
It Might Be You
Reported cases of sexually transmitted disease took a sharp rise during and after World War II, but as this film testifies, sexual license amongst...
The People at No. 19
Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."
Four Men in Prison
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...
Daybreak in Udi