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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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

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

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

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

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

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

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

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

This promotional film bills the market town of Newark as central to the farming industry, with an array of regional produce and livestock. It was...

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'.

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...

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War...

"If they were as rare as orchids we would probably rave about them" opens this film in the Secrets of Nature series, directed by the prolific Mary...

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

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

How to distinguish and deal with various insects that destroy vegetables.