Movies: Shell Film Unit

A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for his own safety and for the safety of others....

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 difficulties posed by the unpredictable weather conditions....

A short introduction to Indian classical dancing....

A celebration of Shell Petroleum, tracing its manufacture from discovery in oil fields to its eventual use as fuel for modern living across the globe....

A BAFTA award winning documentary on the basic principles and applications of hydrostatics....

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

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

This final in the three part documentary series looks at the capabilities of modern commercial aircraft to regularly travel faster than the speed of sound....

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

A documentary investigating the science, aerodynamics and technologies involved in enabling aircraft to travel at speeds approaching or surpassing that of sound....

A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins....

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

A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts geologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and scientists from other disciplines piecing together the clues...

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

An introduction to the sport of flying model aircraft. Made with assistance of the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers....

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

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

A BAFTA award documentary about the threats of floods in Australia, the special water schemes devised and the forerunner of these projects, the Snowy Mountains scheme....

A BAFTA award nominated abridged documentary depicting the issues facing engineers delivering high speed flight. It was initially made in three parts in 1957....

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