Shell Film Unit Movies

A BAFTA award nominated documentary demonstrating how petrol burns in the engine under differing conditions.

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

This final in the three part documentary series looks at the capabilities of modern commercial aircraft to regularly travel faster than the speed of sound.

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

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

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 to man's rise from ice age hunter to builder of...

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

A documentary looking at the construction of the sphere to contain a nuclear reactor. The research programme carried out at the Thornton Research Centre to develop a lubricant to resist radiation.

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.

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

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

Short World War II documentary showing examples of how skilled craftsmen of peacetime apply their skills to essential wartime production.

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

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 documentary looking at Britain's new diesel "Fell" 10,000 locomotive.

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.