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Adventures on a fishing boat as told by two young boys who experience what it takes to be a fisherman at sea.

Explains how television works, everything from the cameras to the tubes and signals.

Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

The film tkes us to the North of England to follow the migration of the black-headed gull down to London. There, the narrator asks viewers to "listen...

Captures the lives, habits and habitats of London’s pigeon population.

Using diagrams, 'Atlantic' explores the history of the empires surrounding the Atlantic Ocean over the last 600 years.

A teaching film about the human skeleton with animated medical illustrations as well as an actual skeleton with commentary. A man, naked to the...

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and...

A Secrets of Life short.

Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film.

Story of young boy and girl who help aircraft designer to outwit gang of spies trying to steal secret plans.

Documentary highlighting how land has been reclaimed for agriculture in Scotland.

A Secrets of Life short.

E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort.

A Secrets of Nature short film about a the cuckoo.

Explore London Zoo with one of its greediest residents, Sally the sparrow.

This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in...

The film opens in January, showing scenes of a frozen pond and shots of the fields. followed by young cattle, or store cattle, being turned out to...

Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks".

Part of the Senior Biology series, 'Development of the Rabbit' is a study of the gestation period of rabbits - aided by diagrammatic, microscopic,...