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- A group of children play at being "Apaches" on an English farm, ignoring all safety precautions. One by one they die a variety of gruesome deaths.
- Docudrama showing the work of British agents with the French "resistance" during the war, acted by actual agents. Includes details of their training, tactics and sabotage activities.
- Short public information film warning children of the dangers of talking to and going off with strangers.
- Protect and Survive was a public information series on civil defence produced by the British government during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was intended to inform British citizens on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack, and consisted of a mixture of pamphlets, radio broadcasts, and public information films. The series had originally been intended for distribution only in the event of dire national emergency, but provoked such intense public interest that the pamphlets were authorised for general release.
- The story of controversial package holiday company, Club 18-30. The company was said to offer drunken mayhem, outrageous nights out and sex. The documentary traces its rise due to shock advertising schemes and an untapped market.
- This 47-minute documentary, financed by HRH's government, won an Oscar in the special category, and most of it was later edited into a 1953 two-segment documentary called "Savage World" by the same crew of film-makers listed on this film. The story here is about an African tribe that is working to build a maternity hospital, with the aid of government officials, and against the opposition of some tribal members.
- In this dramatised documentary about venereal disease, pregnant Joan realises that she has syphilis and must confront her husband Ken with this fact.
- In 1954, the BBC produced an outstanding documentary series on aerial warfare from 1935 to 1950, comprising fifteen half hour shows that was aired on the first Monday after Remembrance Sunday. Taking two years to make, and compiled from nearly 12 million feet of Allied and enemy film footage, there had been little to compare with it in terms of scale, depth and content. This landmark series represents an important piece of television history and will give every viewer an honest telling of the development of airpower. Some of the highlights include; amazing footage taken from the nose of a Mosquito during low level attacks, camera's placed on the wings of various aircraft and a dozen other earth grazing operations. This series will make your hair stand up on end.
- A comedic look at the history of the British coastline.
- Dramatised documentary stressing the importance of motorcycle training for teenagers.
- Public information film, comparing A.I.D.S. to an iceberg, reminding viewers there's more to the disease than they think.
- A short and informative public service announcement that deals with the A.I.D.S. epidemic back in the 1980s destined to British audiences. Directed by Nicolas Roeg and with the voice of Sir John Hurt narrating facts about the disease, this short raised awareness to the public about A.I.D.S., and how to avoid it back in a time when anything related to the disease was considered a death sentence.
- Archive footage from both British and German sources to tell the story of the defense of Britain during World II.
- Warning children not to play near 'dark and lonely' water, a horror film style look and voice-over is used in this film to highlight the dangers.
- Looking at how soldiers injured and disabled during WWII would be helped to live as normal a life as possible in the post war years,
- Albert doesn't understand how he can get food poisoning, but a series of flashbacks tell a different story.
- A biographical short film about fashion designer Zandra Rhodes.
- A haunting PSA about keeping matches out of the hands of children.
- A history of the eleven years which Thatcher spent as Prime Minister of the UK.
- Dramatized events in the life of a village bobby; intended as a recruitment tool.
- Two businessmen make a pact to end it all. After several failed attempts, something happens which changes their mind.
- Edgar Lustgarten investigates the causes of a fatal accident on a motorway, in the course of which, many aspects of road safety are revealed.
- An educational film warning children not to go with strangers.
- A vocational guidance film showing young people informally discussing their work and progress, and giving their candid opinions of jobs in a store, in factories and on the farm. The film selects several young people at a discotheque in the Liverpool area, and shows their jobs (girl window-dresser in a department store, assembly-line workers and an apprentice in a car works, a trainee farmer and a girl sewing-machinist in a clothing factory).
- The people, the scenery and the industrial traditions of the Stroud valley and the growth of the woollen industry.
- Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British citizens.
- This charming assessment of Britain's bicycle industry illustrates the popularity of cycling both as transport (for business or pleasure) and for sport in the 1950s.
- New Town is a British produced animation about urban development and all it's aspect.
- Impressions of British art and culture.
- The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.
- A coal mine manager, with the agreement of the union and workers, revitalizes a Cumberland coal mine during 1941, opening up an abandoned coal seam out at sea and bringing in new equipment.
- A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation in February 1971
- Robert Helpmann explains, and dancers from the Covent Garden and Sadler's Wells troupes demonstrate, basic steps and movements of the dance as a new ballet is rehearsed and performed.
- Deals with the care of young children from early infancy to the age of four or five; realistically portrays the struggles of average parents in training average children.
- Scraps of information are gathered and pieced together by an enemy who lurks in the shadows, proving that nowhere is safe to discuss sensitive wartime information on the home front.
- Intended to encourage British agricultural specialists to work in developing countries to improve methods of agriculture so as to raise the output of the peasant farmers. The role of the agricultural sicentist in research establishments and in training local officers is shown in Kenya and Botswana.
- Deals with the features of the National Hospital Service Reserve, reflected through three personal stories.
- Recently demobbed Hector Andrews fights a local election to stop the glen in his village, Cadisburn, being sold for development. A short film made to emphasise the importance of individuals taking part in local government.
- Shows the effects of a rear seat passenger not wearing a seat belt in a crash at 30 miles an hour. The passenger is thrown forward with the force of a three and a half ton elephant crushing the driver.
- A mother sewing at home is interspersed with shots of her kid going into the street and getting involved in a road accident.
- A broad cross-section of life in Edinburgh on a typical day - the Edinburgh of the railway fireman, coal-man, student, sailor, office worker and businessman.
- The perils of farmyard grain pits to children are laid bare.
- Designed for Naval personnel, describes the main rules to be observed when handling casualties.
- Primarily used for teaching psychiatric nursing, this documentary follows the medical and nursing staff in a psychiatric hospital.
- A musical celebration of British innovations within a typical home.