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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

An educational film warning children not to go with strangers.

A vocational guidance film showing young people informally discussing their work and progress, and giving their candid opinions of jobs in a store, in factories and on the farm. The film selects several young people at a discotheque in the Liverpool area, and shows their jobs (girl window-dresser in a department store, assembly-line workers and an apprentice in a car works, a trainee farmer and a girl sewing-machinist in a clothing factory).

In this dramatised documentary about venereal disease, pregnant Joan realises that she has syphilis and must confront her husband Ken with this fact.

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

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

Edgar Lustgarten investigates the causes of a fatal accident on a motorway, in the course of which, many aspects of road safety are revealed.

12 Sqn Royal Air Force Buccaneer maritime attack aircraft deploy at short notice to Gibraltar on Exercise Open Gate, tasked with helping to keep the Straits open for NATO shipping.

A coal mine manager, with the agreement of the union and workers, revitalizes a Cumberland coal mine during 1941, opening up an abandoned coal seam out at sea and bringing in new equipment.

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

Life in Britain tin the 1960s as seen by young technologists, scientists and others. They discuss aims and ideals and the contribution they are making to a better and more progressive Britain.

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.

The contrasting behavior and experiences of two young motorcyclists, one of whom follows road safety procedures and the other not.

"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 short and informative public service announcement that deals with the A.I.D.S. epidemic back in the 1980s destined to British audiences. Directed by Nicolas Roeg and with the voice of Sir John Hurt narrating facts about the disease, this short raised awareness to the public about A.I.D.S., and how to avoid it back in a time when anything related to the disease was considered a death sentence.

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.

Dramatized events in the life of a village bobby; intended as a recruitment tool.

A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth.