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Browse 36 movies from Film Producers Guild
Shows the improved services and other benefits that oil brings to the backward territories. The financial and technical resources of foreign lands have tapped the liquid wealth hidden below the surface of the earth. In return a new prosperity and improved standard of living is being brought to the peoples of those formerly barren lands.
Aug 1953
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at how Myron Kinley and his team extinguished an out of control oil installation fire at Naft Safidi in Iran in 1951 that had been burning for 26 days.
Jan 1952
A Merton Park Production for the British Electrical Development Association.
Jul 1951
A BAFTA award nominated documentary illustrating the responsibilities and advantages of being a police officer.
Jan 1970
The construction of a pipeline from the Sahara to the Mediterranean Sea.
Jan 1967
After several farmyard analogies featuring chicks and calves, the well-spoken narrator and director of the film, Winifred Holmes, considers the subject of girls and how they reach adulthood and readiness for the 'important job of motherhood.
Nov 1949
A BAFTA award winning documentary looking the River Indus during the dry and monsoon seasons, and about how it's resources are utilised.
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, who's duties included the issuing of public warnings of any nuclear missile strike and the subsequent fallout.
Jul 1962
A portrait of the beautiful game of association football as Britain emerged from WWII.
Mar 1945
A soldier returns home from the Far Eastern theatre of conflict, but discovers that life back home isn't quite what he expected.
Jan 1945
In a dry unforgiving part of Australia, a man and his wife have set up home and live stock to make their living. Just when it seemed the drought and lack of finances were getting to be too much, things change: BP is looking for a suitable area to attempt the world land speed record.
Jan 1964
Storyline Roger Henderson, the young son of a wealthy British gentleman, lives in one of those grand British country estates surrounded by huge gardens. When a Rembrandt painting is stolen from the vault in the basement of the mansion, Roger and John Wilson (young son of the butler) discover a secret tunnel leading from the vault to another building on the estate. They then set out on a dangerous mission to bring the smugglers to justice.
Dec 1948
A BAFTA award nominated animation looking at the life and work of the blacksmith since mediaeval times.
Jan 1957
British fictionalised propaganda drama on the need for women to accept separation from, and loss of, their husbands.
Jan 1918
A documentary that follows the flight of a BOAC Lancastrian airliner travelling from London to Sydney that offers some observations from the passengers and of the places en route (Sicily, Lydda, Karachi, Singapore and Darwin).
Jan 1949
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the history of the motor car in the 1920s. Part of the six-part "History of the Motor Car Series"
Jan 1973
Dramatised account of the achievements of Glasgow's William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.
Jan 1946
A BAFTA award nominated documentary intended for secondary schools exploring the three distinct geographical regions of Germany from a British perspective.
An old fisherman compares his life with that of a modern fisherman and farmer. Film shows North East Scotland's industries, its scenery and its history.
Apr 1944