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• QUEEN'S MESSENGERS [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Jago, Jo (Production individual) 1941-07

  Explanation of a plan for a large-scale mobile canteen service, to be rushed at need to blitzed areas all over Britain.

• THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 1940-1945 [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Bryant, Gerard (Production individual) 1945

  "Incidents dealing with the German Occupation are re-enacted by the Channel Islanders themselves."

• FARM WORK [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Gordon, M (Production individual) 1945

  "One of a film series about jobs after the war." In this case, agricultural workers.

• THE HARVEST SHALL COME [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Imperial Chemical Industries (Production sponsor) 1942

  A film that calls upon the British people to maintain their wartime commitment to agriculture and the prosperity and well-being of everyone who works on the land after the war by telling the story of Tom Grimwood, an ordinary Suffolk farm labourer...

• MEN OF AFRICA [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Shaw, Alexander (Production individual) 1940-06

  Development programmes in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika illustrate that "even in the midst of war, Great Britain does not shirk her responsibilities to her colonies."

• Wright, Basil (IWM interview)

  (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1982-06

  British civilian film producer, director and writer with Empire Marketing Board Film Unit, GPO Film Unit, Realist Film Unit, Film Centre and Crown Film Unit in GB and Canada, 1929-1946

• LIFT YOUR HEAD, COMRADE [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Hankinson, Michael (Production individual) 1942-12

  A study of one of fifteen alien companies in the Pioneer Corps.

• A DEFEATED PEOPLE : a film about the government of the British Occupied Zone of Germany [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Mathieson, Muir (Production individual) 1946

  The problems faced by the military government, both practical and moral, in the British zone of occupied Berlin.

• PERSONNEL SELECTION IN THE BRITISH ARMY: RECRUITS [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Mason, Bill (Production individual) 1944

  A detailed account of the procedure followed to assess new recruits and make optimum use of their capabilities.

• JUNGLE MARINERS [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Royal Marines (Production sponsor) 1946

  Re-enactment of a jungle patrol by Royal Marine Commandos in the final stages of the 1942-1945 Burma campaign.

• SUBJECT FOR DISCUSSION [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Central Council for Health Education (Production sponsor) 1943

  The need to bring the topic of venereal disease into the open is suggested by two fictional storylines, linked by the character of a doctor.

• CANTEEN ON WHEELS [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Verity (Production company) 1941-04

  Shows the work of YMCA mobile canteens by following a "new girl" through her first night's duty during the Blitz (the film is scripted, but quite realistically so).

• WHITE BATTLE FRONT [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Friedman, Laurie (Production individual) 1940-10

  Looks at the "men and women mobilised against disease" who form "another army, just as important for victory".

• LIVING WITH STRANGERS [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Realist (Production company) 1941-07

  Consideration of the social problems arising out of evacuation.

• A DIARY FOR TIMOTHY [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Gamage, Fred (Production individual) 1945

  An impressionistic portrait of life in Britain behind the scenes of imminent victory.

• COALMINER [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Strand (Production company) 1943-09

  An impression of the world of Charles Jones, a miner in the Rhondda Valley.

• THE RAPE OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Weiss, Jiri (Production individual) 1939

  Lament for Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

• THIS WAS JAPAN [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Trench, Terry (Production individual) 1945-09

  Asking "who were these Japanese and how had they become the ruthless conquerors of half the world," the film answers itself with a survey of Japanese history in terms of a bitter indictment of militarism.

• BLITZ NIGHT [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Verity (Production company) 1941

  A version of CANTEEN ON WHEELS (UKY 278).

• MOBILE CANTEEN [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Verity (Production company) 1941

  Shows the work of YMCA mobile canteens by following a "new girl" through her first night's duty during the Blitz.