Crown Film Unit Movies

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

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.

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.

This is the authentic story of a bombing raid on Germany... how it is planned and how it is executed. Every person seen in the picture is a member of...

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

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

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

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

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

The occupation of the Channel Islands.

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...

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

Documentary about an average day during the Blitz.

Documentary short about how Britain is improving after WWII and what the populace can do to help.

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

Feature on the modern airplanes in the year 1951.

Depicts the aftermath of German air raids on Britain with V1 rockets during World War II.

How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.