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Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James McKechnie

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frederick Burtwell

An exposure of the fallacy of race myths; Nazi and Japanese theories about pure blood and master races are contrasted with scientific facts of mixed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julian Huxley

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

Genre: Documentary

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About the war effort in the West Indies.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Learie Constantine

Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London. ...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Celia Johnson

Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of...

Genre: Animation

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norman Shelley

Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sebastian Shaw

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

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

A romantic tour of Britain set to Dylan Thomas's poetry.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Burgess Meredith

Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas.

Genre: Animation

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A dramatised account of Norwegian fishermen outwitting occupational forces during World War II, directed by Jiří Weiss and written by...

Genre: Documentary

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Short WW II documentary

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Bernard Miles and Percy Walsh play two members of the Home Guard, on duty by a windmill, discussing the causes of the war and the issues at stake.

Genre: War

Cast: Bernard Miles

A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Massingham

World War II propaganda trailer asking travellers to have patience and make concessions when travelling on trains. Film mostly consists of rostrum...

Genre: Animation

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A soldier returns home from the Far Eastern theatre of conflict, but discovers that life back home isn't quite what he expected.

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Cast: Robert Griffith

A 1944 British documentary showing farming in a rural part of Britain. Produced by Greenpark Productions for the Ministry of Information.

Genre: Documentary

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