From Gaumont-British Instructional Studios

Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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

In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold...

This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in...

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

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and...

Documentary about the building of ships at Barrow-in-Furness.

A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.

Part two of two teaching films about human anatomy which is devoted to the action of the skeletal muscles in producing movement of the bones at the...

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

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

A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God.

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War...

History - and natural history - filmed on location in Selborne, East Hampshire. This unusual edition of the long-running series Secrets of Life tells...

King Penguins are first seen in their natural habitat, the Antarctic, after which we see them in the Edinburgh Zoo. With slow-motion pictures we see...

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