Crown Film Unit Movies

This is the authentic story of a bombing raid on Germany... how it is planned and how it is executed. Every person seen in the picture is a member of...

British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War...

Depicts the aftermath of German air raids on Britain with V1 rockets during World War II.

A woman blames herself for her husband's death. To overcome her grief and her guilt she becomes a nurse but then a patient dies while under her care.

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...

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...

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

A depiction of life in wartime Britain during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the...

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.

In a follow up to 'A Welcome to Britain', Burgess Meredith returns to look at a post-war Britain.

Documentary about an average day during the Blitz.

Focuses on the work of the Air Transport Auxiliary or ATA. By 1941, literally hundreds of RAF fighters and bombers needed to be flown each day...

This short post-war film was made to inform people how to address a letter correctly.

Tradition, dance and song, modern customs and development and welfare services in the Caribbean Islands.

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

The occupation of the Channel Islands.

Edward R. Murrow narrates Humphrey Jennings' short documentary about life in England during wartime.

British educational documentary film about the principal instruments in the modern symphony orchestra, illustrated through Benjamin Britten's...