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

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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

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

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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'.

Story of young boy and girl who help aircraft designer to outwit gang of spies trying to steal secret plans.

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

The history, development and uses of the oscillograph.