Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Movies

Thomas Hart Benton demonstrates the main steps in planning and executing a mural: beginning designs, sketches, layout, clay model, small painting, lar...

This short from the publishers of Encyclopedia Brittanica shows the process of making a book, from the author's finished manuscript to its being turne...

Magic glasses allow kids to see the world up close

Explores a large metropolitan jet airport, from the traffic control tower to the baggage-processing center. Shows glimpses of hundreds of people on th...

A documentary short on ball handling in basketball.

(1962) This film is designed to teach primary grade children how to properly care for pets. The film emphasizes the fact that pets depend on humans fo...

Educational short film illustrating appropriate safety measures to be taken when working with woodworking tools. Told through the story of a young bo...

Shows five situations, each one a part of a story for students to complete. For primary grades.

Follows the experiences of two brothers and their little sister as they explore the inside of a large empty house which is rumored to be haunted.

a close look at shoes

a close look at toes

Do's and don'ts around the office

Poorly drawn animation about dinosaurs.

Casting her devious filth hex on pig farmers, house painters, and football-playing children, The Dirt Witch delights in making everyone as unclean as...

A lecture-style voice over explains the concept of different scales used to determine if a community (or nation) is free or despotic. Illustrated with...

A group of kids start a lemonade stand -- but who really does the work?

A retelling of Aesop's fable.

The tale of a young boy who discovers a pair of magic sneakers that allows him to create thunder and kick a ball really far.

How many things can you do with YOUR hands?

Shows family life on a modern farm in winter. Describes the care and feeding of livestock kept on a farm in winter. Here, farm life continues at a vig...