Movies: Shell Film Unit

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

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 BAFTA award nominated documentary tracing the history of paint and it's components from the paintings of the stone age to the the late 1960s....

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

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

Highlights from the 1950 Isle of Man motor cycle race won by Geoff Duke....

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 introduction to Indian classical dancing....

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....

Highlights of the Belgian Grand Prix from Spa-Francorchamps on June 5th, 1955....

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

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

A documentary featuring the Vickers "Valiant" aircraft in flight and on the ground....

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

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 concerned with engineering projects connected with developing North Sea oilfields, specifically the Auk and Brent fields....

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

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....

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

Part two in a three part documentary series looking at how supersonic flight might be achieved in the future....