Shell Film Unit Movies

A BAFTA award nominated short feature studying river pollution in Europe and how it can be overcome by the treatment of urban and industrial wastes.

A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.

A documentary looking at a day at Croydon Airport south of London.

A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications...

Highlights from the 6th Farnborough Airshow in 1951.

Documentary highlights of the 1951 Monte Carlo Rally and its international competition.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary tracing the history of paint and it's components from the paintings of the stone age to the the late 1960s.

Color documentary with music by Waldo de los Ríos about the tourist landscapes of Argentina.

Martial Dances of Malabar (1958) is a short documentary directed by Paul Zils, focusing on the traditional martial arts of the Malabar region in...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Farnborough International Air Show.

A documentary featuring the Vickers "Valiant" aircraft in flight and on the ground.

A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for...

A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts...

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

This final in the three part documentary series looks at the capabilities of modern commercial aircraft to regularly travel faster than the speed of...

A documentary record of the 1953 Mille Miglia, tracing the race across Italy from Brescia to Rome and back.

A documentary investigating the science, aerodynamics and technologies involved in enabling aircraft to travel at speeds approaching or surpassing...

A documentary demonstrating the De Havilland "Comet 1" jet airliner with it's four 'ghost' engines.

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.

Following the birth of the helicopter, from the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci through the advent of helicopter technology in the early 1952.