A documentary demonstrating the evolution of lubrication since Egyptian times and how modern machines have advanced.
Jan 1939
Highlights from the 1949 British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone.
May 1949
A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at bilharzia - a disease that affects some 200 million people worldwide.
Jan 1968
Highlights of the Belgian Grand Prix from Spa-Francorchamps on June 5th, 1955.
May 1955
A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and insecticides and land reclamation.
Jan 1962
1958 Shell trade test film following the progress of the 1958 Alpine Cup rally across southern Europe. First showing: 22nd October 1959 (Experimental BBC London Local Tests). Final showing: 7th November 1968.
Jan 1959
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases.
A celebration of Shell Petroleum, tracing its manufacture from discovery in oil fields to its eventual use as fuel for modern living across the globe.
Jul 1965
Britain's part in the emergence of air travel is followed from the Wright brothers to the De Havilland Comet.
Jan 1953
A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts geologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and scientists from other disciplines piecing together the clues to man's rise from ice age hunter to builder of complex societies more than 2000 years before Columbus set sail for the New World.
Jan 1975
In this informative 1938 film, we explore the fundamental types of car suspension prevalent during that era. As a wheel glides along a road, it encounters bumps caused by uneven surfaces. To prevent incessant jolting, the wheels are securely attached to the car using a system that allows for flexibility.
Nov 1938
Highlights from the 1951 race from Monaco.
Jan 1951
A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.
Jan 1960
A documentary concerned with engineering projects connected with developing North Sea oilfields, specifically the Auk and Brent fields.
Jan 1976
A documentary looking at a day at Croydon Airport south of London.
Jan 1934
A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications that have ensued.
Jan 1957
A BAFTA award documentary about the threats of floods in Australia, the special water schemes devised and the forerunner of these projects, the Snowy Mountains scheme.
Jan 1958
A BAFTA award nominated documentary tracing the history of paint and it's components from the paintings of the stone age to the the late 1960s.
Jan 1967
A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for his own safety and for the safety of others.
Jan 1978
A BAFTA special award nominated documentary following the post-war construction of an immense oil refinery near Manchester in the UK.
Jan 1952