Shell Film Unit Movies

An overview of the 1955 Belgian Grand Prix by Shell Oil. Watch the racing heroes of the 1950's conquer the tarmac in one of the picturesque racing...

A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts...

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

Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.

A BAFTA award nominated short feature studying river pollution in Europe and how it can be overcome by the treatment of urban and industrial wastes.

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

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.

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

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

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

A BAFTA award documentary about the threats of floods in Australia, the special water schemes devised and the forerunner of these projects, the Snowy...

In this informative 1938 film, we explore the fundamental types of car suspension prevalent during that era. As a wheel glides along a road, it...

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.

A documentary feature explaining the principles of Schlieren photography, which makes any phenomenon that changes the refractive index of transparent...

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

This final in the three part documentary series looks at the capabilities of modern commercial aircraft to regularly travel faster than the speed of...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Le Mans 24 hour race won by Mercedes-Benz.

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 looking at Britain's new diesel "Fell" 10,000 locomotive.

A brief feature on the short SA-4 aircraft on the ground and in the air.