Movies

Examines contemporary educational methods and policies in the light of an age that has released new natural energies, to be used for or against...

A Cambridge student takes the blame for his gambling brother.

This short film focuses on the period between World War I and World War II when France was struck by riots, strikes and economic stress. During the...

A record of an educational experiment in the small town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire.

Britain's part in the emergence of air travel is followed from the Wright brothers to the De Havilland Comet.

Made at the end of WWII, this documentary looks at Britain's post-war period. During a time of economic hardship, Prime Minister Winston Churchill is...

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...

A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and...

Two case studies highlighting the work of the National Council of Social Service: the conversion of a barn into a village hall in South Cerney,...

A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges.

A documentary looking at the British Government's atomic weapons design, construction and testing on the Australian Monte Bello Islands in 1951.

This short WWII propaganda documentary drives home the point that steel and committed steel workers can make the difference between winning and...

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.

A short GPO documentary showing how undersea telephone cables are repaired.

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.

A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications...

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Harwell's nuclear research establishment and the peaceful applications of atomic energy.

This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries.

An explanation of what is involved in the devaluation of sterling.

Not by any means a truly comprehensive scientific study, this film nevertheless conveys in a popular fashion facts as to the development and habits...