Crown Film Unit Movies

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

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.

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

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

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

The occupation of the Channel Islands.

Film illustrating the scope of London Transport activities at their most extensive. These include shaping the transport system by collating numbers...

Documentary about an average day during the Blitz.

A Letter From Ulster (1943). Northern Ireland's greatest film director Brian Desmond Hurst directed the film and his assistant director was fellow...

Royal Scotland is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Gerard Bryant. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.

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