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- Short public information film warning children of the dangers of talking to and going off with strangers.
- A group of children play at being "Apaches" on an English farm, ignoring all safety precautions. One by one they die a variety of gruesome deaths.
- Protect and Survive was a public information series on civil defence produced by the British government during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was intended to inform British citizens on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack, and consisted of a mixture of pamphlets, radio broadcasts, and public information films. The series had originally been intended for distribution only in the event of dire national emergency, but provoked such intense public interest that the pamphlets were authorised for general release.
- In this dramatised documentary about venereal disease, pregnant Joan realises that she has syphilis and must confront her husband Ken with this fact.
- The story of controversial package holiday company, Club 18-30. The company was said to offer drunken mayhem, outrageous nights out and sex. The documentary traces its rise due to shock advertising schemes and an untapped market.
- A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation in February 1971
- Docudrama showing the work of British agents with the French "resistance" during the war, acted by actual agents. Includes details of their training, tactics and sabotage activities.
- Archive footage from both British and German sources to tell the story of the defense of Britain during World II.
- A comedic look at the history of the British coastline.
- 12 Sqn Royal Air Force Buccaneer maritime attack aircraft deploy at short notice to Gibraltar on Exercise Open Gate, tasked with helping to keep the Straits open for NATO shipping.
- Series of magazine programmes produced between 1968 and 1971, by the Central Office of Information for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Also released under the name "No Two the Same" for the production of foreign language versions.
- A biographical short film about fashion designer Zandra Rhodes.
- In 1954, the BBC produced an outstanding documentary series on aerial warfare from 1935 to 1950, comprising fifteen half hour shows that was aired on the first Monday after Remembrance Sunday. Taking two years to make, and compiled from nearly 12 million feet of Allied and enemy film footage, there had been little to compare with it in terms of scale, depth and content. This landmark series represents an important piece of television history and will give every viewer an honest telling of the development of airpower. Some of the highlights include; amazing footage taken from the nose of a Mosquito during low level attacks, camera's placed on the wings of various aircraft and a dozen other earth grazing operations. This series will make your hair stand up on end.
- New Town is a British produced animation about urban development and all it's aspect.
- Short documentary about Sir Terence Conran an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.
- An educational film warning children not to go with strangers.
- A history of the eleven years which Thatcher spent as Prime Minister of the UK.
- Public information film, comparing A.I.D.S. to an iceberg, reminding viewers there's more to the disease than they think.
- A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth.
- A short and informative public service announcement that deals with the A.I.D.S. epidemic back in the 1980s destined to British audiences. Directed by Nicolas Roeg and with the voice of Sir John Hurt narrating facts about the disease, this short raised awareness to the public about A.I.D.S., and how to avoid it back in a time when anything related to the disease was considered a death sentence.
- Teaching people how to drive safely at night.
- No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain's economics. Meet Charley, the portrait of a nation. At the end of the 1940s the Central Office of Information commissioned Halas and Batchelor to make seven films about policies of the post-war Labour Government. Charley was cast as the figurehead of the campaign, learning about mining, farming, national insurance, and even schooling via a son at the end of the series. This short looks at the Marshall Plan, and makes the most explicit link between character and country as his life story stands in for 270 years of British economic history.
- Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British citizens.
- Looking at how soldiers injured and disabled during WWII would be helped to live as normal a life as possible in the post war years,
- This 47-minute documentary, financed by HRH's government, won an Oscar in the special category, and most of it was later edited into a 1953 two-segment documentary called "Savage World" by the same crew of film-makers listed on this film. The story here is about an African tribe that is working to build a maternity hospital, with the aid of government officials, and against the opposition of some tribal members.
- Dramatised documentary stressing the importance of motorcycle training for teenagers.
- Scraps of information are gathered and pieced together by an enemy who lurks in the shadows, proving that nowhere is safe to discuss sensitive wartime information on the home front.
- When a couple move into a new apartment they find magical help from two strangers to redecorate.
- Impressions of British art and culture.
- A broad cross-section of life in Edinburgh on a typical day - the Edinburgh of the railway fireman, coal-man, student, sailor, office worker and businessman.
- Highlights of Prince Philip's visit to Antarctica, Falkland Island Dependencies, the Falkland Islands themselves, Gough Island, Tristan Da Cunha, St. Helena and Ascension Island in the 1950s.
- A comic demonstration of how - and how not - to cross the road.
- Deals with the care of young children from early infancy to the age of four or five; realistically portrays the struggles of average parents in training average children.
- Spoken extracts from Shakespeare's works blend with visuals of scenes in Britain which illustrate his references to countryside or childhood and the sea or to the taverns and trades of London.
- A vocational guidance film showing young people informally discussing their work and progress, and giving their candid opinions of jobs in a store, in factories and on the farm. The film selects several young people at a discotheque in the Liverpool area, and shows their jobs (girl window-dresser in a department store, assembly-line workers and an apprentice in a car works, a trainee farmer and a girl sewing-machinist in a clothing factory).
- A brief view of work by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the mid 1960s. Taking place over a 24hr period, around the globe.
- Charley the character from "New Town" is back again in "Your Very Good Health" a British produced animation explaining the benefits of a National Health Service.