Strand Film Company

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Film of the weekly radio programme devised by Howard Thomas, which began on 1st January 1941 and soon had an estimated regular audience of ten million who listened as the panel answered, unrehearsed, questions sent in by the public.

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

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.

'Woman shelters epileptic son when he kills prostitute.' (British Film Catalogue)

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 clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)