Crown Film Unit Movies

A woman blames herself for her husband's death. To overcome her grief and her guilt she becomes a nurse but then a patient dies while under her care.

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

A World War II drama-documentary showing the struggles of Merchant Navy seamen following an attack by a U-Boat. Western Approaches is a vast area of...

An African tribe in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana work to build a maternity hospital, with the aid of government officials, and against the...

Film illustrating the scope of London Transport activities at their most extensive. These include shaping the transport system by collating numbers...

A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete...

This is the authentic story of a bombing raid on Germany... how it is planned and how it is executed. Every person seen in the picture is a member of...

An Englishman and Frenchman sharing a hotel room discover their children are fighting on the same side, French Resistance and R.A.F.

How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.

A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.

Reported cases of sexually transmitted disease took a sharp rise during and after World War II, but as this film testifies, sexual license amongst...

British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War...

In a follow up to 'A Welcome to Britain', Burgess Meredith returns to look at a post-war Britain.

Focuses on the work of the Air Transport Auxiliary or ATA. By 1941, literally hundreds of RAF fighters and bombers needed to be flown each day...

Short WW II documentary

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

Edward R. Murrow narrates Humphrey Jennings' short documentary about life in England during wartime.

Documentary about an average day during the Blitz.

The occupation of the Channel Islands.