most Viewed Ex Gaumont-British Instructional

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

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

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

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

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

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

This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in...

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...

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

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

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'.

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

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

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

Part two of two teaching films about human anatomy which is devoted to the action of the skeletal muscles in producing movement of the bones at the...

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

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

A Secrets of Life short.

King Penguins are first seen in their natural habitat, the Antarctic, after which we see them in the Edinburgh Zoo. With slow-motion pictures we see...