Shell Film Unit

A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary reviewing the 1958 Alpine Rally.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the famous Italian motor race from April 26th, 1953.

A celebration of Shell Petroleum, tracing its manufacture from discovery in oil fields to its eventual use as fuel for modern living across the globe.

A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for his own safety and for the safety of others.

A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications that have ensued.

A documentary investigating the science, aerodynamics and technologies involved in enabling aircraft to travel at speeds approaching or surpassing that of sound.

A documentary looking at a day at Croydon Airport south of London.

This final in the three part documentary series looks at the capabilities of modern commercial aircraft to regularly travel faster than the speed of sound.

A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts geologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and scientists from other disciplines piecing together the clues to man's rise from ice age hunter to builder of complex societies more than 2000 years before Columbus set sail for the New World.

A BAFTA award winning documentary on the basic principles and applications of hydrostatics.

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.

A documentary tracing the development of the helicopter from the original Da Vinci drawings to the modern versions actually in service in 1951.

A short introduction to Indian classical dancing.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Le Mans 24 hour race won by Mercedes-Benz.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the work of supply ships to North Sea oil rigs. Described by members of the crew, it focusses on the difficulties posed by the unpredictable weather conditions.

An introduction to the sport of flying model aircraft. Made with assistance of the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers.

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and insecticides and land reclamation.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary tracing the history of paint and it's components from the paintings of the stone age to the the late 1960s.