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Browse 27 movies from World Wide Pictures
Looking at how soldiers injured and disabled during WWII would be helped to live as normal a life as possible in the post war years.
Dec 1950
Bristol's historical buildings, streets, docks, churches, bomb ruins, and industries, her great traditions and associations with famous citizens.
Jan 1951
A pair of mismatched rock climbers must learn to work together to conquer one of the world's most treacherous mountains in this adventure tale. After rescuing a wealthy man, solo climbers Michael and Derrick are rewarded with a chance to summit Mount Chicanagua. Risk-taker Derrick clashes with safety-conscious Michael, but in order to live through the ordeal they must work as a team.
Feb 2002
A BAFTA award nominated documentary paying tribute to the World Health Organisation on it's tenth anniversary in 1958.
Jan 1958
This film describes the building of the drilling platform ADMA Enterprise in a shipyard on the Kiel Canal, from where it was rowed to the Arabian Gulf.
Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton's calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with British Film Institute in 2005.
May 1954
A guide to going metric from the Central Office of Information on behalf of the Metrication Board.
Jan 1973
Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British POWs enduring brainwashing and torture during the Korean War, thereby revealing what a soldier could expect if he was ever captured by enemy forces.
Jan 1959
This new evangelistic film epic, specially produced for this Gospel witness at the World's Fair, undertakes to describe man's "fifth" dimension -- the life of the human spirit. In swift sequence the giant galaxies, tiny microscopic organisms, cultures and civilizations of the heroic past are summoned to bear testimony to the Glory of God and the spiritual nature of man. Then the story narrows down to one solitary individual, Jesus Christ, the Carpenter of Nazareth, and the effect of this Man upon the world. The film closes on a highly personal note as Mr. Graham invites viewers to receive Christ as Savior and Lord.
Apr 1964
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the international co-ordination involved in dealing with a locust plague.
Jan 1953
A BAFTA award nominated documentary considering Mendel's laws of inheritance and how the passage of dominant & recessive characteristics from one generation to another depends on discrete particles of matter.
Jan 1968
Documentary focusing on the positives and negatives of policing in London in the 1970s.
A documentary feature telling how then descendants of the crew of HMS Bounty survive today on the remote island of Pitcairn, where their ancestors settled after the mutiny.
Dec 1962
Jan 1957
Hot-shot pilot Dan Hogan is sent deep into the Colombian jungle to rescue missionary doctor Ann Williams. Caught between innocent villagers and a ruthless drug lord, Ann won't abandon the people she has come to love.
May 2004
Intended for school leavers, the promotional film shows the vast range and variety of jobs available within the British Civil Service, highlighting the ways in which civil servants help individuals, the community in general and Parliament.
Jan 1970
While describing the area conservation schemes currently organised by the Civic Trust, this film indicates the importance of the public's role in preserving the human environment. It aims to alert us all to the need to guard our urban environment from erosion by the rapidly changing demands of the twentieth century.
Jan 1971
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the basic features of detergency using animated diagrams and live action photography.
Jan 1960
Instructs gangers and lengthmen how the Hallade Track recorder makes a continous record of the movements of a train during a journey and so shows up the good and bad places in the track.
Jan 1952
Some of the many facets of life in Britain today showing recent developments in industry, atomic power, sport and education, as well as her participation in the United Nations and contribution to the development of the multi-racial Commonwealth.
Jan 1964