The Woman's Portion 1918
British fictionalised propaganda drama on the need for women to accept separation from, and loss of, their husbands.
British fictionalised propaganda drama on the need for women to accept separation from, and loss of, their husbands.
In a dry unforgiving part of Australia, a man and his wife have set up home and live stock to make their living. Just when it seemed the drought and lack of finances were getting to be too much, things change: BP is looking for a suitable area to attempt the world land speed record.
Storyline Roger Henderson, the young son of a wealthy British gentleman, lives in one of those grand British country estates surrounded by huge gardens. When a Rembrandt painting is stolen from the vault in the basement of the mansion, Roger and John Wilson (young son of the butler) discover a secret tunnel leading from the vault to another building on the estate. They then set out on a dangerous mission to bring the smugglers to justice.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary intended for secondary schools exploring the three distinct geographical regions of Germany from a British perspective.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary following a twenty-four hour tour of duty with officers of the Metropolitan Police Traffic Division.
A look at how Scotland's water is being used to bring power to the Highlands.
A BAFTA award winning documentary looking the River Indus during the dry and monsoon seasons, and about how it's resources are utilised.
Shows the improved services and other benefits that oil brings to the backward territories. The financial and technical resources of foreign lands have tapped the liquid wealth hidden below the surface of the earth. In return a new prosperity and improved standard of living is being brought to the peoples of those formerly barren lands.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary explaining what proteins are, how they work and why we need them.
A documentary that follows the flight of a BOAC Lancastrian airliner travelling from London to Sydney that offers some observations from the passengers and of the places en route (Sicily, Lydda, Karachi, Singapore and Darwin).
The Tide of Traffic is a 1972 British short documentary film directed by Derek Williams, made by British Petroleum as a contribution to the UN Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm 1972. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, who's duties included the issuing of public warnings of any nuclear missile strike and the subsequent fallout.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the development of the benzediazepine range of psychotropic compounds, from librium, twelve years ago, to the latest - nobrium, as treatments for human anxiety.
A Merton Park Production for the British Electrical Development Association.
A BAFTA award nominated animation looking at the life and work of the blacksmith since mediaeval times.
Our animated hero questions his sanity after blowing his top and driving his car into a police station.
Life in Merseyside, showing the role of the region's two newspapers, the Liverpool Daily Post and the Echo. The story of the production of the newspapers is interwoven into the lives of the Merseysiders.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at how Myron Kinley and his team extinguished an out of control oil installation fire at Naft Safidi in Iran in 1951 that had been burning for 26 days.
In this video, we step back in time to 1953 as we follow the journey of a ship as it enters the port of Antwerp.
After several farmyard analogies featuring chicks and calves, the well-spoken narrator and director of the film, Winifred Holmes, considers the subject of girls and how they reach adulthood and readiness for the 'important job of motherhood.