Strand Film Company

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.

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

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

Anti nazi short.

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.

Two case studies highlighting the work of the National Council of Social Service: the conversion of a barn into a village hall in South Cerney, Gloucestershire, and the building of an occupational centre in the depressed mining village of Pentre in the Rhondda Valley, Wales.

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

Two lovers search for some privacy to kiss during the blitz.

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

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

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.

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

A description of Lloyd’s services to world shipping and the story of a voyage from Valparaiso to Hull. The S.S. Armadillo, ‘100 A 1’ at Lloyd’s sets out with a valuable cargo on her adventurous voyage; she is reported missing; her safe arrival is announced by the ringing of the famous Lutine Bell at Lloyd’s.

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

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.

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.

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

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