Ministry Of Information Movies

After escaping a Nazi POW camp, a young Scottish RAF gunner recounts his perilous journey through occupied France with the help of the Resistance....

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...

Backstage before a performance, a French actor recalls his time in Madagascar during World War II, when he secretly ran a Resistance radio station...

Trawlers at work; the crew on board and landing a catch. The fishing crew are seen with their families on shore shopping and enjoying themselves in...

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

At the start of World War II, few ordinary soldiers knew exactly why they were fighting, or the significance of each theatre of war. Such ignorance...

Bernard Miles and Percy Walsh play two members of the Home Guard, on duty by a windmill, discussing the causes of the war and the issues at stake.

A soldier returns home from the Far Eastern theatre of conflict, but discovers that life back home isn't quite what he expected.

A short documentary style film it depicts the story of The British obtaining a special tool from America to help with the building of a tank.

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

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

A 1941 Ministry of Information propaganda film set to the tune of The Lambeth Walk, a popular song from the musical Me and My Girl.

After a masterful Shakespearean performance in a London theater, Ralph Richardson is sought for an autograph by Fred, his dresser. Later, Fred has...

Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas.

Short documentary on the use of the V-1 Flying Bomb during the German bombings of London.

On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five...

Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.

How Somerton, Oxfordshire benefits from membership of the Village Produce Association during WWII.

A tribute to the Avro Lancaster, “the most powerful and efficient bomber in the world, and one of the most important war-winning weapons in the...

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