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- Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
- A young Scottish R. A. F. Gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from occupied territory, and in particular one person who may or may not have been a German Agent.
- Cameramen from Britain's Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945.
- Three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces for a planned invasion.
- While preparing backstage, an actor tells his castmates about an adventure he had during World War II in the Axis-controlled French colony of Madagascar working for the Resistance and clashing with the collaborationist local police chief.
- A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.
- After a masterful performance as Othello in a London theater, Ralph Richardson is asked for an autograph by Fred, his dresser. A short while later, Fred has joined the Fleet Air Arm (Fly Navy) and has become a hero, rescuing a pilot from his burning plane. When Fred goes to Buckingham Palace, it's Ralph's turn to ask for an autograph.
- The planning and implementation of an RAF night raid on Germany in World War II, concentrating on a low level mission by a Wellington bomber on an oil storage facility by the Rhine.
- The Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including a re-enactment.
- A film presented by the British War Office for newly arrived World War 2 American soldiers, informing them of British ways.
- A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
- This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration explains to "Timothy" what his family, his neighbors, and his fellow citizens are going through as the war nears its end, and what problems may remain for new Englishmen like Timothy to solve.
- This film is structured around British attempts to prevent the V1 missiles from getting through to their targets. Gunners, pilots and barrage balloons are the layers of National Defence, layers of defence that can't be entirely successful.
- The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
- Footage from Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda documentary, Triumph of the Will, is juxtaposed with a popular British dance tune to make fun of Hitler, in this playful short subject.
- Documentary about the Burma Campaign during World War Two, directed by Roy Boulting.
- The WWII Libyan campaign of 1940-1941 is chronicled, where British forces commanded by General Wavell defeated the Italian attack on Egypt.
- Yugoslav refugees are settled in Egypt.
- Re-enactment of incidents during the German occupation of the Channel Islands.
- A short documentary style film it depicts the story of The British obtaining a special tool from America to help with the building of a tank.
- Tommy Trinder promotes the virtues of the wartime communal British Restaurants.
- A Tribute to the Workers of the British Aircraft Industry.
- A look at the rural farming community during WWII and how farmers help stop food shortages during the war.
- The Call for Arms is a 1940 British propaganda short film, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Jean Gillie and Rene Ray. The film was commissioned by the Ministry of Information and was aimed at women, urging them to sign up for war work.
- Comic propaganda short explaining the importance of blackout procedures during WWII.
- Life aboard merchant ships with the Maritime Regiment of the Royal Artillery.
- Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs
- This propaganda short illustrates the danger of careless talk by naval men. It demonstrates how a sailor's talk of recall is overheard by a waitress who ultimately betrays his ship to a U-boat.
- The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of livelihood and the machinery of government in a devastated, starving and disease-ridden city.
- A drama/documentary in which a matronly housewife performs various low-key good deeds to help keep her family and neighbours (and hence by extension her country) running during the war.
- Documentary short featuring a visit by American newsman Edward R. Murrow to the English town of Dover during the Second World War.
- A party of eight Royal Marines patrol the jungle in the South East Asia Command Area.
- Britons rally together to defend the island against the Nazis who were occupying neighbouring countries.
- The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort.
- A look at what life was like during WWII as a secondary school pupil in Britain.
- English farmers plant crops on formerly disused land to assist the war effort.
- Grandma gives the task of cooking the cabbage to Sally and Jane, who each get one half a cabbage to work with. Sally's half turns out delicious; Jane's half is nasty and tasteless.
- Shows how the RAF's barrage balloon squadron are trained, and then on the job.
- Encourages mothers to seek medical advice from the earliest stages of pregnancy and to take advantage of existing maternity services.
- A story of a soldier coming home and other typical city-dwellers, is inter-cut with documentary footage of the rebuilding of Coventry.
- A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.
- How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.
- When a crashed Nazi aeroplane is recovered, British scientists have high hopes of learning valuable secrets. But a disgruntled factory worker inadvertently alerts enemy agents to the discovery, with disastrous consequences.
- British riposte to the 1940 Nazi propaganda film Feuertaufe (aka Baptism of Fire).