Movies: Ministry Of Information

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....

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....

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...

About the war effort in the West Indies....

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....

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....

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...

World War II propaganda film....

An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and character to the newly arrived American soldier. Starting with the ubiquitous pub visit, the film breezes thr...

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...

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....

How to make porridge using a haybox....

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

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII....

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

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...

A romantic tour of Britain set to Dylan Thomas's poetry....

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs....