Movies: Shell Film Unit

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

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....

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

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

A documentary tracing the development of the helicopter from the original Da Vinci drawings to the modern versions actually in service in 1951....

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 documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases....

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 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 demonstrating the evolution of lubrication since Egyptian times and how modern machines have advanced....

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

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

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

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

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

Short World War II documentary showing examples of how skilled craftsmen of peacetime apply their skills to essential wartime production....

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 1949 British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone....

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Le Mans 24 hour race won by Mercedes-Benz....

A BAFTA award nominated short feature studying river pollution in Europe and how it can be overcome by the treatment of urban and industrial wastes....