Shell Film Unit Movies

A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for...

A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications...

A BAFTA award winning documentary on the basic principles and applications of hydrostatics.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the famous Italian motor race from April 26th, 1953.

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 the construction of the sphere to contain a nuclear reactor. The research programme carried out at the Thornton Research...

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

Highlights from the 1949 British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Highlights from the 6th Farnborough Airshow in 1951.

Part two in a three part documentary series looking at how supersonic flight might be achieved in the future.

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary tracing the history of paint and it's components from the paintings of the stone age to the the late 1960s.

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at bilharzia - a disease that affects some 200 million people worldwide.

Britain's part in the emergence of air travel is followed from the Wright brothers to the De Havilland Comet.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary tracing the development of the gear from the first recorded use in a crude form over two thousand years ago to...

A documentary featuring the Avro "Vulcan" jet aircraft on the ground and in flight.

A BAFTA award nominated reworking of a 1957 documentary using models and animation to explain the need to mix air and petrol in the correct...

A documentary featuring the Vickers "Valiant" aircraft in flight and on the ground.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the work of supply ships to North Sea oil rigs. Described by members of the crew, it focusses on the...

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