Crown Film Unit Movies

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

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

An account of the first expedition to the Queen Maud Land region of Antarctica.

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.

Short WW II documentary

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...

Reported cases of sexually transmitted disease took a sharp rise during and after World War II, but as this film testifies, sexual license amongst...

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

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

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.

The occupation of the Channel Islands.

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

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

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

Perhaps the characters in this film are stupid or even laughable. Before YOU laugh at them remember that people behaving like them often cause...

An Englishman and Frenchman sharing a hotel room discover their children are fighting on the same side, French Resistance and R.A.F.

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete...

A documentary about how a bill for education (also known as the children's charter) passed by the British government in the 1940's will help all...

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