Crown Film Unit Movies
- 1942
Listen to Britain
Listen to Britain6.11942HD
A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil...
- 1943
Fires Were Started
Fires Were Started6.11943HD
British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War I...
- 1945
A Diary for Timothy
A Diary for Timothy6.61945HD
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.
- 1941
Target for Tonight
Target for Tonight5.8331941HD
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...
- 1951
Mary's Birthday
Mary's Birthday4.51951HD
The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.
- 1940
Christmas Under Fire
Christmas Under Fire6.21940HD
How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.
- 1948
A Yank Comes Back
A Yank Comes Back01948HD
In a follow up to 'A Welcome to Britain', Burgess Meredith returns to look at a post-war Britain.
- 1946
Mr Jones Takes the Air
Mr Jones Takes the Air01946HD
Perhaps the characters in this film are stupid or even laughable. Before YOU laugh at them remember that people behaving like them often cause acciden...
- 1942
Ferry Pilot
Ferry Pilot51942HD
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 between...
- 1946
It Might Be You
It Might Be You01946HD
A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.
- 1949
Daybreak in Udi
Daybreak in Udi4.41949HD
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 op...
- 1942
Coastal Command
Coastal Command41942HD
Documentary style presentation of the work of RAF Coastal Command. Shows their work in protecting convoys and attacking enemy aircraft, ships and U-bo...
- 1946
Instruments of the Orchestra
Instruments of the Orchestra01946HD
British educational documentary film about the principal instruments in the modern symphony orchestra, illustrated through Benjamin Britten's composit...
- 1951
Life in Her Hands
Life in Her Hands01951HD
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.
- 1944
Two Fathers
Two Fathers71944HD
An Englishman and Frenchman sharing a hotel room discover their children are fighting on the same side, French Resistance and R.A.F.
- 1943
The Silent Village
The Silent Village6.81943HD
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
- 1943
A Letter from Ulster
A Letter from Ulster01943HD
A Letter From Ulster (1943). Northern Ireland's greatest film director Brian Desmond Hurst directed the film and his assistant director was fellow Uls...
- 1951
Wing to Wing
Wing to Wing01951HD
Feature on the modern airplanes in the year 1951.
- 1951
The White Continent
The White Continent71951HD
An account of the first expedition to the Queen Maud Land region of Antarctica.
- 1941
Words for Battle
Words for Battle6.21941HD
Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence O...