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- A young Scottish R. A. F. Gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from occupied territory, and in particular one person who may or may not have been a German Agent.
- Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
- While preparing backstage, an actor tells his castmates about an adventure he had during World War II in the Axis-controlled French colony of Madagascar working for the Resistance and clashing with the collaborationist local police chief.
- The planning and implementation of an RAF night raid on Germany in World War II, concentrating on a low level mission by a Wellington bomber on an oil storage facility by the Rhine.
- Cameramen from Britain's Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945.
- Three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces for a planned invasion.
- A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.
- After a masterful performance as Othello in a London theater, Ralph Richardson is asked for an autograph by Fred, his dresser. A short while later, Fred has joined the Fleet Air Arm (Fly Navy) and has become a hero, rescuing a pilot from his burning plane. When Fred goes to Buckingham Palace, it's Ralph's turn to ask for an autograph.
- The Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including a re-enactment.
- A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
- This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration explains to "Timothy" what his family, his neighbors, and his fellow citizens are going through as the war nears its end, and what problems may remain for new Englishmen like Timothy to solve.
- Footage from Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda documentary, Triumph of the Will, is juxtaposed with a popular British dance tune to make fun of Hitler, in this playful short subject.
- A film presented by the British War Office for newly arrived World War 2 American soldiers, informing them of British ways.
- The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
- A short documentary style film it depicts the story of The British obtaining a special tool from America to help with the building of a tank.
- Documentary about the Burma Campaign during World War Two, directed by Roy Boulting.
- Documentary about the nazi leaders responsible for the war and terror in Europe, voiced in English in the words of Dylan Thomas.
- How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.
- A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.
- British riposte to the 1940 Nazi propaganda film Feuertaufe (aka Baptism of Fire).
- A story of a soldier coming home and other typical city-dwellers, is inter-cut with documentary footage of the rebuilding of Coventry.
- When a crashed Nazi aeroplane is recovered, British scientists have high hopes of learning valuable secrets. But a disgruntled factory worker inadvertently alerts enemy agents to the discovery, with disastrous consequences.
- This short showcases the work of the cameramen who filmed the battles of WWI and early WWII. We also get to see the faces of many of the men who took the pictures. This includes director D.W. Griffith, who shot newsreels in the trenches of WWI.
- A dramatized account of Norwegian fishermen outwitting occupational forces during World War
- Jane Brown gives up being an office typist to work in an aircraft factory.
- A look at the LCC project for the re-planning and building of post-war London, explained by the two architects responsible for the plan, Sir Patrick Abercrombie and Mr. J.H. Forshaw.
- Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them understand why they're fighting.
- Documentary short film depicting the work in a British armaments plant in which the night shift consists of women workers.
- A drama/documentary in which a matronly housewife performs various low-key good deeds to help keep her family and neighbours (and hence by extension her country) running during the war.
- Life aboard merchant ships with the Maritime Regiment of the Royal Artillery.
- A study of child delinquency in Scotland
- A look at life in the Fenlands (a coastal, marshy plain in eastern England) in 1940's.
- Tommy Trinder promotes the virtues of the wartime communal British Restaurants.
- Two girls find a talking doll on the beach.
- A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).
- During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to search for her husband, a British soldier who was fighting in France and who may be among the troops waiting to be rescued.
- Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs
- How to make porridge using a haybox.
- An outline of the training for the Royal Navy given in the Sea Cadets, as related by a sailor on leave.
- Eight Australian soldiers in New Guinea attack a Japanese stronghold.
- This documentary short film describes the events in the lives of anti-Nazi German and Austrian concentration camp escapees who fled to England and joined the British army.
- The Call for Arms is a 1940 British propaganda short film, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Jean Gillie and Rene Ray. The film was commissioned by the Ministry of Information and was aimed at women, urging them to sign up for war work.