Ministry of Information

A young, Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from Nazi-occupied territory. They are particularly interested in one...

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

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...

A former leader of the French Resistance finds that one of his fellow actors looks like a detestable official he knew in Madagascar during the war....

A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.

World War II propaganda film.

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the...

Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them...

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.

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.

During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to...

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.

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

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...

Short WW II documentary

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant...

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

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

Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of...