Crown Film Unit Movies

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

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

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

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

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

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

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

Short WW II documentary

How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.

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

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

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

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

Documentary about an average day during the Blitz.

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...

The occupation of the Channel Islands.

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...

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