Movies: Shell Film Unit

A documentary demonstrating the evolution of lubrication since Egyptian times and how modern machines have advanced....

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the famous Italian motor race from April 26th, 1953....

A BAFTA award nominated documentary reviewing the 1958 Alpine Rally....

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

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....

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

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

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....

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Le Mans 24 hour race won by Mercedes-Benz....

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

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

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 BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases....

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

A BAFTA special award nominated documentary following the post-war construction of an immense oil refinery near Manchester in the UK....

Highlights from the 1949 British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone....

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

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