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Short public information film warning children of the dangers of talking to and going off with strangers.

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding. The film gives an idea of the business of building a ship - the largest moving thing made by man - from the naval architects who design her to the workmen, the shipbuilders in the yard, through to a ship's launching.

A group of children play at being "Apaches" on an English farm, ignoring all safety precautions. One by one they die a variety of gruesome deaths.

In this dramatised documentary about venereal disease, pregnant Joan realises that she has syphilis and must confront her husband Ken with this fact.

Archive footage from both British and German sources to tell the story of the defense of Britain during World II.

"What does H.M.P. stand for? Himalayan Mounted Police? Could equally be Hot Meat Pie, or Honesty, Modesty, and Purity". Well in actual fact it stands for Her Majesty's Prisons, and it is inside where we are a fly on the wall for this film.

In 1954, the BBC produced an outstanding documentary series on aerial warfare from 1935 to 1950, comprising fifteen half hour shows that was aired on the first Monday after Remembrance Sunday. Taking two years to make, and compiled from nearly 12 million feet of Allied and enemy film footage, there had been little to compare with it in terms of scale, depth and content. This landmark series represents an important piece of television history and will give every viewer an honest telling of the development of airpower. Some of the highlights include; amazing footage taken from the nose of a Mosquito during low level attacks, camera's placed on the wings of various aircraft and a dozen other earth grazing operations. This series will make your hair stand up on end.

Warning children not to play near 'dark and lonely' water, a horror film style look and voice-over is used in this film to highlight the dangers.

A history of the eleven years which Thatcher spent as Prime Minister of the UK.

An educational film warning children not to go with strangers.

Docudrama showing the work of British agents with the French "resistance" during the war, acted by actual agents. Includes details of their training, tactics and sabotage activities.

A comedic look at the history of the British coastline.

Protect and Survive was a public information series on civil defence produced by the British government during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was intended to inform British citizens on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack, and consisted of a mixture of pamphlets, radio broadcasts, and public information films. The series had originally been intended for distribution only in the event of dire national emergency, but provoked such intense public interest that the pamphlets were authorised for general release.

Two businessmen make a pact to end it all. After several failed attempts, something happens which changes their mind.

Public information film, comparing A.I.D.S. to an iceberg, reminding viewers there's more to the disease than they think.

Impressions of British art and culture.

A vocational guidance film showing young people informally discussing their work and progress, and giving their candid opinions of jobs in a store, in factories and on the farm. The film selects several young people at a discotheque in the Liverpool area, and shows their jobs (girl window-dresser in a department store, assembly-line workers and an apprentice in a car works, a trainee farmer and a girl sewing-machinist in a clothing factory).

A short and informative public service announcement that deals with the A.I.D.S. epidemic back in the 1980s destined to British audiences. Directed by Nicolas Roeg and with the voice of Sir John Hurt narrating facts about the disease, this short raised awareness to the public about A.I.D.S., and how to avoid it back in a time when anything related to the disease was considered a death sentence.

An account of Britain's vast nuclear power program for a new industrial era, and its progress to date.

Illustrates the contrasting aspects of army life in the Wrens, from leisure activities and opportunities for travel, to the skills of mechanics and radio operators.

The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.

The story of controversial package holiday company, Club 18-30. The company was said to offer drunken mayhem, outrageous nights out and sex. The documentary traces its rise due to shock advertising schemes and an untapped market.

A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation in February 1971

Dramatised documentary stressing the importance of motorcycle training for teenagers.

Film warning people to ring the coastguard if they spot trouble at sea. Joe and Petunia, an animated Yorkshire couple who witness a man in distress and mistake his signals for larking about.