Strand Film Company Movies

'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)

Two lovers search for some privacy to kiss during the blitz.

Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.

Women from a variety of professions sign up to join a volunteer group looking after barrage balloons. Working through all weathers and all hours,...

A playful and affectionate look at London Zoo and the people and animals who make up its daily life.

The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man...

An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and...

A romantic tour of Britain set to Dylan Thomas's poetry.

A short documentary to demonstrate what can be done with Technicolor film and to show various other colourful products.

Two case studies highlighting the work of the National Council of Social Service: the conversion of a barn into a village hall in South Cerney,...

Anti nazi short.

This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries.

A 1936 documentary film about the London to Portsmouth railway. A lesser known contemporary of Night Mail, also featuring the music of Benjamin...

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.

Film of the weekly radio programme devised by Howard Thomas, which began on 1st January 1941 and soon had an estimated regular audience of ten...

Made in 1941, this stirring Ministry of Information dramatisation tells the story of a Crusader tank crew trapped behind enemy lines in the Desert....

A real Buckinghamshire schoolteacher - the kindly Mrs James - is the star of this persuasive WWII propaganda film. Shot on location in Ashley Green,...

A description of Lloyd’s services to world shipping and the story of a voyage from Valparaiso to Hull. The S.S. Armadillo, ‘100 A...

A 1935 black and white film advertising London and exolting it's most popular tourist attractions.