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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.
- Dramatized events in the life of a village bobby; intended as a recruitment tool.
- 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.
- 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.
- Short public information film warning children of the dangers of talking to and going off with strangers.
- A typical day's work by a provincial policeman in Leicester.
- Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding. The film gives an idea of the business of building a ship - the largest moving thing made by man - from the naval architects who design her to the workmen, the shipbuilders in the yard, through to a ship's launching.
- 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.
- Archive footage from both British and German sources to tell the story of the defense of Britain during World II.
- In this dramatised documentary about venereal disease, pregnant Joan realises that she has syphilis and must confront her husband Ken with this fact.
- 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.
- Public information film, comparing A.I.D.S. to an iceberg, reminding viewers there's more to the disease than they think.
- This Week In Britain was a news series produced by the UK government's Central Office of Information (COI) in behalf of the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Relations Office for distribution to overseas TV and cinema networks. Each episode was a 5-minute factual report covering a single topic. It ran from 1959 to 1980 and was black-and white until changing to colour in the early 1970s, sometime around episode 700. The numbering suggests these were issued at weekly or similar intervals. Some episodes appear on various of the British Film Institutes's (BFI) series of "The COI Collection" DVD sets issued from 2010.
- 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.
- A haunting PSA about keeping matches out of the hands of children.
- A mother sewing at home is interspersed with shots of her kid going into the street and getting involved in a road accident.
- The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.
- Documentary from 1957 about the English village of Harting.
- Burgess Meredith had hosted and produced a documentary about Britain for the millions of American servicemen in World War Two. After the war he again hosted and produced this sequel. It includes cameos from his then wife, Paulette Goddard and Christine Norden.
- Short documentary about Sir Terence Conran an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.
- 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.
- 1974 animated, educational public service short about the basics of labeling consumer food products, Writ/Dir Richard Taylor for "Housewife's Trust" and the "Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food".
- HM The Queen's tour of Pakistan in 1961. Shows people of Karachi cheering the Queen as she drives with President Ayub Khan; and among other things a visit to the site of the memorial to Mahomed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.