Ministry Of Information Movies

Backstage before a performance, a French actor recalls his time in Madagascar during World War II, when he secretly ran a Resistance radio station...

After escaping a Nazi POW camp, a young Scottish RAF gunner recounts his perilous journey through occupied France with the help of the Resistance....

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.

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...

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...

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

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

A tribute to the Avro Lancaster, “the most powerful and efficient bomber in the world, and one of the most important war-winning weapons in the...

Is your hedge thin and straggly? Don't worry, help is at hand.

Bernard Miles and Percy Walsh play two members of the Home Guard, on duty by a windmill, discussing the causes of the war and the issues at stake.

Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.

A soldier returns home from the Far Eastern theatre of conflict, but discovers that life back home isn't quite what he expected.

A romantic tour of Britain set to Dylan Thomas's poetry.

After a masterful Shakespearean performance in a London theater, Ralph Richardson is sought for an autograph by Fred, his dresser. Later, Fred has...

Coughs and sneezes spread diseases! Comedian Arthur Askey presents a humorous film warning against sneezing in public during W.W.II. Over several...

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. ...

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.

How Somerton, Oxfordshire benefits from membership of the Village Produce Association during WWII.

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...

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