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The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front.

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

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...

Documentary on the young builders who'll rebuild Britain after the war.

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

Documentary short featuring a visit by American newsman Edward R. Murrow to the English town of Dover during the Second World War.

Trawlers at work; the crew on board and landing a catch. The fishing crew are seen with their families on shore shopping and enjoying themselves in...

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

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

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.

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

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...

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.

A short documentary illustrating the lives of the residents of Dover in Kent as the Nazi war machine - a mere 21 miles away - did it’s worst...

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

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

A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.

Propaganda short showing how boy scouts can help the war effort in Britain.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

A short documentary made for the British government covering the Allied war effort in Europe in the year leading up to D-Day. Part of a series that...