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A Secrets of Life short.

Adventures on a fishing boat as told by two young boys who experience what it takes to be a fisherman at sea.

Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film.

Story of young boy and girl who help aircraft designer to outwit gang of spies trying to steal secret plans.

The film tkes us to the North of England to follow the migration of the black-headed gull down to London. There, the narrator asks viewers to "listen...

Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

Documentary highlighting how land has been reclaimed for agriculture in Scotland.

E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort.

Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks".

Captures the lives, habits and habitats of London’s pigeon population.

Part of the Senior Biology series, 'Development of the Rabbit' is a study of the gestation period of rabbits - aided by diagrammatic, microscopic,...

A teaching film about the human skeleton with animated medical illustrations as well as an actual skeleton with commentary. A man, naked to the...

A Secrets of Nature short film about a the cuckoo.

Explore London Zoo with one of its greediest residents, Sally the sparrow.

A Secrets of Life short.

How to distinguish and deal with various insects that destroy vegetables.

An educational film about how food is distributed and sold in markets in London in the late 1940s.

A documentary on the English language and it's origins.

We learn of the beginnings of the English railways and how they were devised in the 1800s.

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.