This resource brings together a collection of unique moving images illustrating what life was like for ordinary people in Britain during the Second World War, as seen through amateur documentaries, newsreels, government films, and home movies. The clips can be browsed by such themes as Children in wartime, displaced people, home & family life, victory celebrations and others or though a simple timeline, from 1936 to 1963. It showcases moving images from seven regional screen archives and collections based around the UK. Many of the films are in colour and offer excellent supporting and contextual essays and assorted bits of information as well as detailed synopses. Windows Media Player or QuickTime are required.
Also of interest is On The Home Front a joint project between Screen Archive South East and Whitehawk Primary School, in which primary school children learned about World War II through the use of archive film and working with local people who remember life on the Home Front.