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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chesney Allen

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.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Redgrave

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Gravett

A Letter From Ulster (1943). Northern Ireland's greatest film director Brian Desmond Hurst directed the film and his assistant director was fellow...

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alfie Bass

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

Genre: Documentary

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An Englishman and Frenchman sharing a hotel room discover their children are fighting on the same side, French Resistance and R.A.F.

Genre: War

Cast: Paul Bonifas

Documentary style presentation of the work of RAF Coastal Command. Shows their work in protecting convoys and attacking enemy aircraft, ships and...

Genre: War

Cast: Roger Hunter

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...

Genre: Documentary

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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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kathleen Byron

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Hylton

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Mervyn

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Desmond Carrington

A short film about how builders help contribute to the war effort.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Hilton

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

A dramatised account of Norwegian fishermen outwitting occupational forces during World War II, directed by Jiří Weiss and written by...

Genre: Documentary

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How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Quentin Reynolds

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...

Genre: Documentary

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The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

Genre: Animation

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Malcolm Sargent