Crown Film Unit Movies

A depiction of life in wartime Britain during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the...

British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War...

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

This is the authentic story of a bombing raid on Germany... how it is planned and how it is executed. Every person seen in the picture is a member of...

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...

An African tribe in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana work to build a maternity hospital, with the aid of government officials, and against the...

Documentary by Humphrey Jennings

Royal Scotland is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Gerard Bryant. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.

How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.

The occupation of the Channel Islands.

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

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

Tradition, dance and song, modern customs and development and welfare services in the Caribbean Islands.

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

Edward R. Murrow narrates Humphrey Jennings' short documentary about life in England during wartime.

Focuses on the work of the Air Transport Auxiliary or ATA. By 1941, literally hundreds of RAF fighters and bombers needed to be flown each day...

Reported cases of sexually transmitted disease took a sharp rise during and after World War II, but as this film testifies, sexual license amongst...

The Railwaymen shows the public information film moving onto a peacetime footing, and is one of the first films to bear the name of the Central...

A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete...

Short public information film showing housewives' efficient and hygienic methods of food storage.