Nereden Gaumont-British Instructional Studios

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

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

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

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

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

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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

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

A Secrets of Life short.

The Case of The Missing Scene is a children's crime thriller that has been designed in the tradition of classic British children's films. A camera...

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

Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the...

Adventures on a fishing boat as told by two young boys who experience what it takes to be a fisherman at sea.

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

Explore London Zoo with one of its greediest residents, Sally the sparrow.

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

In this dramatized warning to young women of the risks of venereal disease, Betty, a shop girl, pays a severe price for just one 'slip'.

A study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next.