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Looking at how soldiers injured and disabled during WWII would be helped to live as normal a life as possible in the post war years,

Protect and Survive was a public information series on civil defence produced by the British government during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was intended to inform British citizens on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack, and consisted of a mixture of pamphlets, radio broadcasts, and public information films. The series had originally been intended for distribution only in the event of dire national emergency, but provoked such intense public interest that the pamphlets were authorised for general release.

Short public information film warning children of the dangers of talking to and going off with strangers.

Docudrama showing the work of British agents with the French "resistance" during the war, acted by actual agents. Includes details of their training, tactics and sabotage activities.

A group of children play at being "Apaches" on an English farm, ignoring all safety precautions. One by one they die a variety of gruesome deaths.

In 1954, the BBC produced an outstanding documentary series on aerial warfare from 1935 to 1950, comprising fifteen half hour shows that was aired on the first Monday after Remembrance Sunday. Taking two years to make, and compiled from nearly 12 million feet of Allied and enemy film footage, there had been little to compare with it in terms of scale, depth and content. This landmark series represents an important piece of television history and will give every viewer an honest telling of the development of airpower. Some of the highlights include; amazing footage taken from the nose of a Mosquito during low level attacks, camera's placed on the wings of various aircraft and a dozen other earth grazing operations. This series will make your hair stand up on end.

The story of controversial package holiday company, Club 18-30. The company was said to offer drunken mayhem, outrageous nights out and sex. The documentary traces its rise due to shock advertising schemes and an untapped market.

A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation in February 1971

This Week In Britain was a news series produced by the UK government's Central Office of Information (COI) in behalf of the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Relations Office for distribution to overseas TV and cinema networks. Each episode was a 5-minute factual report covering a single topic. It ran from 1959 to 1980 and was black-and white until changing to colour in the early 1970s, sometime around episode 700. The numbering suggests these were issued at weekly or similar intervals. Some episodes appear on various of the British Film Institutes's (BFI) series of "The COI Collection" DVD sets issued from 2010.

Public information film, comparing A.I.D.S. to an iceberg, reminding viewers there's more to the disease than they think.

Archive footage from both British and German sources to tell the story of the defense of Britain during World II.

A haunting PSA about keeping matches out of the hands of children.

Scraps of information are gathered and pieced together by an enemy who lurks in the shadows, proving that nowhere is safe to discuss sensitive wartime information on the home front.

A comedic look at the history of the British coastline.

Warning children not to play near 'dark and lonely' water, a horror film style look and voice-over is used in this film to highlight the dangers.

This 47-minute documentary, financed by HRH's government, won an Oscar in the special category, and most of it was later edited into a 1953 two-segment documentary called "Savage World" by the same crew of film-makers listed on this film. The story here is about an African tribe that is working to build a maternity hospital, with the aid of government officials, and against the opposition of some tribal members.

A history of the eleven years which Thatcher spent as Prime Minister of the UK.

An educational film warning children not to go with strangers.

A musical celebration of British innovations within a typical home.

Short documentary about Sir Terence Conran an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.

Dramatised documentary stressing the importance of motorcycle training for teenagers.

"What does H.M.P. stand for? Himalayan Mounted Police? Could equally be Hot Meat Pie, or Honesty, Modesty, and Purity". Well in actual fact it stands for Her Majesty's Prisons, and it is inside where we are a fly on the wall for this film.

A mother sewing at home is interspersed with shots of her kid going into the street and getting involved in a road accident.

A biographical short film about fashion designer Zandra Rhodes.