Movies: Ministry Of Information

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain and covers all...

A young, Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from Nazi-occupied territory. They are particularly interested in one person who may or may not have been a German agent....

On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five months, Sidney Bernstein had led a small team – which included Stewart McAllister, Richard Crossman an...

A former leader of the French Resistance finds that one of his fellow actors looks like a detestable official he knew in Madagascar during the war. He tells about his time, operating an illegal radio station while evading the Nazis....

A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz....

Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy....

A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents....

From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. This Ealing Studios production features well-known 1940s actor John Mills, playing a sailor whose girl...

Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas....

Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London. Glimpses of the events of Mrs Taylor's typical day, including ration shopping and fire warden training, be...

Short WW II documentary...

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales....

Documentary short featuring a visit by American newsman Edward R. Murrow to the English town of Dover during the Second World War....

Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography....

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front....

A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver)....

World War II propaganda film....

Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets slip vital information about some overnight research on a captured enemy aircraft. This inevitably lead...

During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to search for her husband, a British soldier who was fighting in France and who may be among the troops w...

Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them understand why they're fighting....