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- Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus, inciting the wrath of the creature's mother.
- Shakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
- While trying to escape hunters, Hank the Yeti befriends a American family in a big city.
- A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
- A young girl finds herself attracted to one of her father's business partners.
- Docudrama showing the work of British agents with the French "resistance" during the war, acted by actual agents. Includes details of their training, tactics and sabotage activities.
- In 1954, the BBC produced an outstanding documentary series on aerial warfare from 1935 to 1950, comprising fifteen half hour shows that was aired on the first Monday after Remembrance Sunday. Taking two years to make, and compiled from nearly 12 million feet of Allied and enemy film footage, there had been little to compare with it in terms of scale, depth and content. This landmark series represents an important piece of television history and will give every viewer an honest telling of the development of airpower. Some of the highlights include; amazing footage taken from the nose of a Mosquito during low level attacks, camera's placed on the wings of various aircraft and a dozen other earth grazing operations. This series will make your hair stand up on end.
- A look at the history of British B-movies.
- Two Home Guard volunteers discuss the causes of war and their hopes for peace in the future.
- A military training film dramatizing three members of the Home Guard discovering German wireless operators and how they dealt with them. The latter half of the film is instructional showing methods of attack and defense, illustrating how an unarmed man can deal effectively with the enemy. Part 1: Three Home Guard notice an abandoned house has a light on. Leaving one to guard the back door, the other two investigate why the occupants are not abiding by the blackout. The man in the house insists he is Belgian . While he is out of the room fetching his papers the Home Guard check his jacket and discover he is German. They search the house and find the "Belgian" and two other Germans using a wireless. The Home Guard have no ammunition and begin to fight. They are overcome and killed. The Home Guard at the back door is also disposed of, the sound of planes can be heard, parachutes descend and the Nazis invade. Part 2: The faults of the Home Guard's attack are highlighted in a re-showing of the previous scene. The vulnerable points of the body are indicated ie. the fork (genital area), chin, fore and upper arms, back and side of neck, kidneys, base of spine, Adam's apple, shin and the instep. An actor kitted out in German regalia faces an English soldier and all the possible components of unarmed combat are shown in a slow static and detailed manner. Includes - the German helmet as a weapon; bending the little finger back; much attention to the fork; Japanese stranglehold; avoiding punches; defense against rifle/bayonet; dealing with a hold-up from side, rear and front angles (montage) and how to disarm a sentry. Part 3:The Handcuff hold; trussing a prisoner up with no less than seven yards of rope. Reiteration of necessity for expertise in unarmed combat both at home and abroad. A dramatization of English soldiers landing in occupied France to capture a Nazi HQ. Using the principles from the instructional section of reel 2, the Englishmen defend themselves and their country against the Germans; tying up the sentry, taking the German officers prisoner and chalking a "V" for victory on the HQ door. A possible invasion (for that is what the Germans had been discussing prior to capture) prevented by unarmed combat techniques.
- At the height of World War II, this propaganda piece looks at the contribution made by Britain's Commonwealth allies, as well as its partners, to the future of global freedom.
- An account of the Air Transport Auxiliary which provides personnel to fly newly completed aircraft from factory to service airfield.
- Instructional film in which a young woman in a safety poster at RAF Transport Command appears to come to life to remind a flight lieutenant to use more care and attention when piloting an aeroplane in peacetime.
- An inspiring film about rebuilding towns, not just because of war damage, but also so that the people of Britain can have a better standard of living.
- Propaganda short about the work of the ARP.
- The WWII Libyan campaign of 1940-1941 is chronicled, where British forces commanded by General Wavell defeated the Italian attack on Egypt.
- 'Westward Ho!' (1940) was the first of many government-sponsored 'five-minuters': short, specific and urgent public information films, distributed free to cinemas. This one was made by a commercial film studio, with feature film director Thorold Dickinson using technicians from recent projects. Astonishingly, exactly two weeks after shooting started, prints were already screening. Dickinson was inspired by a newspaper letter from a mother objecting to evacuation. He seeks to reassure parents that procedures are being implemented carefully, to underline the bitter necessity of what was a controversial policy. The first objective is achieved by showing one infant group's evacuation from London to Devon. The final two minutes engage with the second task. Female refugees, superimposed on a map of Europe, beseech Britons to learn from the tragic consequences of delayed evacuation in their countries. A warning from a grimly determined soldier concludes the film. Stylishly shot, this is effective, economical filmmaking for a time of crisis. Dickinson neither dares nor needs to stress the situation's poignancy. Parents today will surely be powerfully affected by scenes of their 1940 counterparts waving off the trains, and by later shots of plucky young faces.
- This film is a tribute to Britain's women teachers, standard bearers of an education Nazi-ism would destroy and it tells of one tiny village school typical of hundreds, at Ashley Green in the leafy countryside of Buckinghamshire.
- A documentary look at Wales's turbulent relationship with England, and its commitment to the defense of Britain during World War II through its industries, social rituals, rural life and its future prospects.
- Jane Brown gives up being an office typist to work in an aircraft factory.
- British Council short film about building ships from steel and the different trades involved. The story is told through the eyes of young David, the son of a journeyman steel fabricator. David spends the day at the shipyard whilst his father toils. He finds many ways to create mischief as well as helping out here and there.
- Produced by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1941, this film explains how to prepare an area of ground for growing your veg, and shows why not having space is simply no excuse.
- Ministry of Information propaganda short extolling the traditions and virtues of civilian militias in deterring invaders from the Armada to WWII.
- The war-time activity of Tyneside shipyards and the problem of securing labour.
- Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the war effort.
- A story of a soldier coming home and other typical city-dwellers, is inter-cut with documentary footage of the rebuilding of Coventry.
- The merchant seamen, as personified by a Newfoundland sailor whose boat has been torpedoed four times.
- Women from a variety of professions sign up to join a volunteer group looking after barrage balloons. Working through all weathers and all hours, after an eleven-week initial training period, they are committed to their work as well as their leisure-time activities.
- A soldier returns home from the Far Eastern theater of conflict, but discovers that life back home isn't quite what he expected.
- A fascinating film showing how all unglamorous jobs actually contribute to the war effort.
- Tank Battle shows how an armoured formation goes into battle.
- An appeal to the public to save for the war effort, in the form of Stanley Holloway's "Albert and the Lion" monologue.