Ministry Of Information Movies

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

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....

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.

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...

This film explains how sneezing in public can spread disease, and shows how using a handkerchief can stop it.

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

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.

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...

Trawlers at work; the crew on board and landing a catch. The fishing crew are seen with their families on shore shopping and enjoying themselves in...

A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).

World War II propaganda film.

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

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...

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.

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

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...

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

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

Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London. ...