COI

An anti-smoking public information film in which children investigate adult smoking habits, framing addiction as learned behavior rather than maturity.

Power cuts, housing shortages and exorbitant rents – Aberdeen man goes head to head with his greedy landlady.

Designed to promote the National Cycling Proficiency Scheme: an N.C.P.S. student competes with another boy in a private cycling competition, organised and judged by pop singer, Peter Noone.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Documentary about Sir Terence Conran, an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.

A look at the work of a policeman in rural Scotland.

Colin Welland presents this public information film about the hazards of nighttime driving.

A rendition of the traditional English folksong ‘Widdicombe Fair’, accompanied by drawings.

Filmed partly in Urdu, Insaaf (Injustice) is a public information film aimed at Britain’s South Asian communities. Produced through the Central Office of Information for the Race Relations Board, it seeks to inform viewers of the Board’s role in enforcing the 1968 Race Relations Act, via the story of a young man denied a job he is qualified for due to the racism of his potential employer.

Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provides trained agents, arms and other assistance to the European resistance groups fighting against Hitler. British agents, Captain Harry Rée DSO, OBE, Croix De Guerre, Médaille de la Résistance, aka "Felix", and Jacqueline Nearne, MBE, aka "Cat", recreate some of their adventures in France.

The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.

A haunting fire prevention film about keeping matches out of the hands of children.

An African tribe in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana work to build a maternity hospital, with the aid of government officials, and against the opposition of some tribal members.

The President had been due to visit twice before, but on both occasions the trip had to be cancelled. The first time was in 1963, the same year as the Commonwealth visit by the President of India. The second cancellation occurred in 1965 when a longstanding dispute between India and Pakistan over the sovereignty of Kashmir boiled over into full-scale war in September of that year. However, as one might expect from a film made for international diplomacy purposes no reference is made to ongoing political problems either at home or abroad. Like the Indian presidential visit of 1963, the film was for screening to domestic audiences (both in the UK and in Pakistan) whose main interest would be in the pomp and ceremony of the visit, and the reception and status afforded to the President by the Queen and royal family.

Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' stories are used to explain certain sections of the Labelling of Food Regulations 1970.

A short film to warn children of sexual predators.

Dover made over: this quirky and pointed public information film reveals how the heavily-bombed and shelled Kent town was being replanned after the war. The filmmakers cleverly and entertainintly capture our attention by opening on travelogue cliches that they quickly undercut. It's not white cliffs and rolling hills they want to tell us about. It's present-day Dover - remaking itself in the crisp freshness of a postwar spring.

Britain Beware is a documentary about the history of COI's infamous British public information film hosted by Adrian Edmondson.

The people, the scenery and the industrial traditions of the Stroud valley and the growth of the woollen industry.

Ernie tells Eric to ‘be wise’ and not drive home after their Christmas party.