Ministry Of Information Movies

Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas.

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

Surrealism, avant-garde sound montage, and irreverent wit might be the last thing you'd expect from a government-sponsored film about wartime cookery....

Trawlers at work; the crew on board and landing a catch. The fishing crew are seen with their families on shore shopping and enjoying themselves in th...

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front.

This film explains how sneezing in public can spread disease, and shows how using a handkerchief can stop it.

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

From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. Th...

The story of a young naval recruit, and an appeal for National Savings.

An explanation for American audiences of what rationing means to ordinary British families.

About the war effort in the West Indies.

How to make porridge using a haybox.

Documentary on the young builders who'll rebuild Britain after the war.

A Letter From Ulster (1943). Northern Ireland's greatest film director Brian Desmond Hurst directed the film and his assistant director was fellow Uls...

During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to se...

A 1944 British documentary showing farming in a rural part of Britain. Produced by Greenpark Productions for the Ministry of Information.

Propaganda short showing how boy scouts can help the war effort in Britain.

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 the...

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

A documentary edited by Jiří Weiss on the role of Soviet women in the Second World War