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A young, Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from Nazi-occupied territory. They are particularly interested in one...

A former leader of the French Resistance finds that one of his fellow actors looks like a detestable official he knew in Madagascar during the war....

On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five...

A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).

An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and...

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the...

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.

About the war effort in the West Indies.

World War II propaganda film.

This film explains how sneezing in public can spread disease, and shows how using a handkerchief can stop it.

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...

A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.

Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.

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

Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.

The story of a young naval recruit, and an appeal for National Savings.

Surrealism, avant-garde sound montage, and irreverent wit might be the last thing you'd expect from a government-sponsored film about wartime...

Documentary by Andrew Buchanan illustrating a time when faith lay at the heart of the British Experience.

A 1941 Ministry of Information propaganda film set to the tune of The Lambeth Walk, a popular song from the musical Me and My Girl.

An explanation for American audiences of what rationing means to ordinary British families.