Crown Film Unit Movies

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

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

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...

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

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.

One of the first European films commissioned by the countries that signes the Brussels treaty and filmed in the museums of Brussels, Amsterdam,...

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

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

Documentary about an average day during the Blitz.

Edward R. Murrow narrates Humphrey Jennings' short documentary about life in England during wartime.

Focuses on the work of the Air Transport Auxiliary or ATA. By 1941, literally hundreds of RAF fighters and bombers needed to be flown each day...

A short film about how builders help contribute to the war effort.

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

In a follow up to 'A Welcome to Britain', Burgess Meredith returns to look at a post-war Britain.

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...

This is the authentic story of a bombing raid on Germany... how it is planned and how it is executed. Every person seen in the picture is a member of...

The occupation of the Channel Islands.

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

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

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