Movies: Shell Film Unit

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 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 BAFTA special award nominated documentary following the post-war construction of an immense oil refinery near Manchester in the UK....

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases....

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 documentary concerned with engineering projects connected with developing North Sea oilfields, specifically the Auk and Brent fields....

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

A documentary looking at the construction of the sphere to contain a nuclear reactor. The research programme carried out at the Thornton Research Centre to develop a lubricant to resist radiation....

Highlights from the 1950 Isle of Man motor cycle race won by Geoff Duke....

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

Highlights from the 1949 British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone....

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

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

A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made for the Festival of Britain....

A documentary featuring the Vickers "Valiant" aircraft in flight and on the ground....

A BAFTA award nominated documentary tracing the development of the gear from the first recorded use in a crude form over two thousand years ago to its widespread use in many forms today....

Highlights from the 6th Farnborough Airshow in 1951....