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A selection of public information films, propaganda shorts and adverts from the BFI National Archive. Originally shown in cinemas to British audiences during the Second World War, these films served to boost...
Animation. This collection of eighteen short films presents a necessarily selective view of the output of the British animation company, from 1948 - 1981. A useful range of extras includes ‘An Animated...
The BFI continues its series of releases from the COI archive with this double-disc collection of films made by the UK government about childhood and children. From post-war films made to promote healthy...
Never commercially released before and previously only shown to a highly restricted audience of top military brass from the Ministry of Defence, CAPTURED (1959) is a stunning POW drama and a lost gem of...
This release brings together a collection of information films during World War I, made in order to promote co-operation and support among civilians. More than 25 official cartoons, trailers and short films...
To coincide with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, this seventh compilation of films made by the Central Office of Information (COI) presents colour footage of the Queen and the Royal Family travelling the...
From the impenetrably euphemistic to the breathtakingly explicit, this intriguing anthology of 16 films takes us through 60 years of sex education in Britain from the 1910s to the 1970s. All ‘unmentionable...
This sixth compilation of films made by the Central Office of Information examines the issue of ‘risk’ in our everyday lives. Complimenting the safety messages in Volume Four, STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!, the...
The fifth volume in the COI collection, PORTRAIT OF A POEPLE, proudly looks at Britain and its people. Promoting an idealised notion of Britain has often been at the forefront of COI film production: from...
This third compilation of COI films helps paint a positive picture of life in the Services. The films include morale-boosting documentaries, propaganda items and numerous recruitment films, which placed...
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