Crown Film Unit Movies

  • 1942
    Listen to Britain

    Listen to Britain

    Listen to Britain

    6.11942HD

    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...

    Listen to Britain
  • 1943
    Fires Were Started

    Fires Were Started

    Fires Were Started

    6.11943HD

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

    Fires Were Started
  • 1945
    A Diary for Timothy

    A Diary for Timothy

    A Diary for Timothy

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    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 Diary for Timothy
  • 1941
    Target for Tonight

    Target for Tonight

    Target for Tonight

    5.8331941HD

    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...

    Target for Tonight
  • 1951
    Mary's Birthday

    Mary's Birthday

    Mary's Birthday

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    The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

    Mary's Birthday
  • 1940
    Christmas Under Fire

    Christmas Under Fire

    Christmas Under Fire

    6.21940HD

    How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.

    Christmas Under Fire
  • 1948
    A Yank Comes Back

    A Yank Comes Back

    A Yank Comes Back

    01948HD

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

    A Yank Comes Back
  • 1946
    Mr Jones Takes the Air

    Mr Jones Takes the Air

    Mr Jones Takes the Air

    01946HD

    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...

    Mr Jones Takes the Air
  • 1942
    Ferry Pilot

    Ferry Pilot

    Ferry Pilot

    51942HD

    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...

    Ferry Pilot
  • 1946
    It Might Be You

    It Might Be You

    It Might Be You

    01946HD

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

    It Might Be You
  • 1949
    Daybreak in Udi

    Daybreak in Udi

    Daybreak in Udi

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    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...

    Daybreak in Udi
  • 1942
    Coastal Command

    Coastal Command

    Coastal Command

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    Documentary style presentation of the work of RAF Coastal Command. Shows their work in protecting convoys and attacking enemy aircraft, ships and U-bo...

    Coastal Command
  • 1946
    Instruments of the Orchestra

    Instruments of the Orchestra

    Instruments of the Orchestra

    01946HD

    British educational documentary film about the principal instruments in the modern symphony orchestra, illustrated through Benjamin Britten's composit...

    Instruments of the Orchestra
  • 1951
    Life in Her Hands

    Life in Her Hands

    Life in Her Hands

    01951HD

    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.

    Life in Her Hands
  • 1944
    Two Fathers

    Two Fathers

    Two Fathers

    71944HD

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

    Two Fathers
  • 1943
    The Silent Village

    The Silent Village

    The Silent Village

    6.81943HD

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

    The Silent Village
  • 1943
    A Letter from Ulster

    A Letter from Ulster

    A Letter from Ulster

    01943HD

    A Letter From Ulster (1943). Northern Ireland's greatest film director Brian Desmond Hurst directed the film and his assistant director was fellow Uls...

    A Letter from Ulster
  • 1951
    Wing to Wing

    Wing to Wing

    Wing to Wing

    01951HD

    Feature on the modern airplanes in the year 1951.

    Wing to Wing
  • 1951
    The White Continent

    The White Continent

    The White Continent

    71951HD

    An account of the first expedition to the Queen Maud Land region of Antarctica.

    The White Continent
  • 1941
    Words for Battle

    Words for Battle

    Words for Battle

    6.21941HD

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

    Words for Battle