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• HM NAVIES GO TO SEA [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: British Movietone News (Production company) 1941

  A view of the Empire's Navies, in peace and war, designed to emphasise their size and power, worldwide distribution, and fighting character (in explicit contrast to Axis navies).

• FROM THE SEVEN SEAS [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: GB Instructional (Production company) 1940-11

  A picture of Britain's west coast ports and their rôle in keeping open Britain's vital links with the outside world.

• UNITED NATIONS : a record of the first United Nations Day in Great Britain, 14th June 1942 [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) 1942-08

  A record of the official parade honouring the flags of the Allied Nations outside Buckingham Palace, with scenes from the ceremonies at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, to represent local measures to mark the day.

• NAVAL OPERATIONS [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Shell (Production company) 1941-12

  A rough analysis of various sea battles of the early war years is combined with a description of various classes of warship to provide basic information on the character of contemporary naval combat.

• MESOPOTAMIA - BAGHDAD AND RIVER SCENES [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: International Film Service (Production company) 1918

  Everyday life in Mesopotamia under the British occupation, 1918.

• WITH THE FORCES IN MESOPOTAMIA - SERIES 6 [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: International Film Service (Production company) 1918

  British film of the inhabitants of the River Tigris shoreline from Basra to Kut al Amara, mostly filmed from a moving boat, 1918 (?).

• Together

  (posters) Made by: Ministry of Information (publisher/sponsor) 1939

  whole: the image fills the majority of the design, with text, in yellow, contained within a black horizontal band at the bottom. All is surrounded by a plain white border. image: a group of seven British empire military personnel in uniform. From left to...

• CORVETTES [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Luff, A H (Production individual) 1941-09

  A 'Flower' class corvette in convoy-protection rôle, presented as typical of a new class of ships designed to counter the Nazi threat to British supplies.

• RAISING SAILORS [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Farmer, A (Production individual) 1940-09

  The early training of Royal Navy recruits; the film shows both the education of 'boy sailors' of 15-16 and the basic training of 'hostilities only' recruits (men in their 20s and 30s).

• NAPLES IS A BATTLEFIELD [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Baylis, Peter (Production individual) 1944

  The problems of reconstruction in Naples, the first great city to be liberated, now in Allied control.