Strand Film Company

An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and character to the newly arrived American soldier. Starting with the ubiquitous pub visit, the film breezes through geography lessons, food and entertainment on the Home Front.

A real Buckinghamshire schoolteacher - the kindly Mrs James - is the star of this persuasive WWII propaganda film. Shot on location in Ashley Green, it shows how evacuees from surrounding towns adapt to village life and wartime conditions. With its images of happy, healthy children, the film was clearly designed to give reassurance to city-dwelling mothers separated from their offspring.

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.

How Somerton, Oxfordshire benefits from membership of the Village Produce Association during WWII.

A romantic tour of Britain set to Dylan Thomas's poetry.

A short documentary about the work of the National Trust in Great Britain

A popular study of relative anatomy and physiology with particular reference to size and weight.

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.

British documentary on how the community of Ulster got converted to war times.

A 1935 black and white film advertising London and exolting it's most popular tourist attractions.

A playful and affectionate look at London Zoo and the people and animals who make up its daily life.

The film sequences were represented by the premiere of the now thought lost short 'Cover To Cover' directed by Paul Rotha. This short film illustrated the production of a book. Added comments from such luminaries as Julian Huntley and TS. Eliot added class.

Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.

This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries.

A 1936 documentary film about the London to Portsmouth railway. A lesser known contemporary of Night Mail, also featuring the music of Benjamin Britten and poetry of W.H. Auden.

Tomorrow is Theirs examines provisions for secondary school education during the war, arguing for the importance of maintaining excellent, thorough schooling in spite of wartime obstacles.

The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.

A short documentary to demonstrate what can be done with Technicolor film and to show various other colourful products.

Propaganda film, capturing “the work of the government’s training camps and instructional centres for unemployed men.” - NFA catalogue.

Made in 1941, this stirring Ministry of Information dramatisation tells the story of a Crusader tank crew trapped behind enemy lines in the Desert. With no intercom, a wounded crewman and little fuel, they must fight their way through an Italian column to freedom.