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 turmoil...

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

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

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...

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.

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 between...

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

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

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 op...

Documentary about an average day during the Blitz.

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."

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

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

Documentary by Humphrey Jennings

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

Short public information film showing housewives' efficient and hygienic methods of food storage.

Short WW II documentary

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