Movies: Shell Film Unit

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at bilharzia - a disease that affects some 200 million people worldwide....

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

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

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

Britain's part in the emergence of air travel is followed from the Wright brothers to the De Havilland Comet....

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....

1958 Shell trade test film following the progress of the 1958 Alpine Cup rally across southern Europe. First showing: 22nd October 1959 (Experimental BBC London Local Tests). Final showing: 7th November 1968....

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

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....

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...

In this informative 1938 film, we explore the fundamental types of car suspension prevalent during that era. As a wheel glides along a road, it encounters bumps caused by uneven surfaces. To prevent incessant jolting, the wheels are securely attached...

Highlights from the 1951 race from Monaco....

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated short feature studying river pollution in Europe and how it can be overcome by the treatment of urban and industrial wastes....

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Farnborough International Air Show....

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