Shell Film Unit Movies

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

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

A documentary tracing the development of the helicopter from the original Da Vinci drawings to the modern versions actually in service in 1951.

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

A documentary demonstrating the evolution of lubrication since Egyptian times and how modern machines have advanced.

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

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.

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

The main industrial processes concerned with the shaping of metal under pressure.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary reviewing the 1958 Alpine Rally.

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Le Mans 24 hour race won by Mercedes-Benz.

A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and...

Highlights of the Belgian Grand Prix from Spa-Francorchamps on June 5th, 1955.

Highlights from the 1949 British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone.

A short introduction to Indian classical dancing.

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the work of supply ships to North Sea oil rigs. Described by members of the crew, it focusses on the...

A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made for the Festival of Britain.