Realist Film Unit Movies

Information on the different groups and organizations that are there to help the population during wartime.

"The Harvest Shall Come" is a wartime story/documentary produced by Realist Film Unit and starring John Slater. This tells the story of an ordinary farmer (Tim Grimwood), and his struggles as a boy starting out in 1900, to a farm labourer come the second world war. The story documents the ebbs and...

Instructs on the importance of ante-natal care and proper diet in helping children to grow healthy teeth.

Focuses upon the journey of child refugees from the Basque Country to temporary accommodation near Southampton, Hampshire [England].

Is your hedge thin and straggly? Don't worry, help is at hand.

British health documentary on children's ears and how to prevent deafness.

Portrait of a small French town following its liberation during World War II.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Paging all parents! Need some post-war childrearing advice? Then this is the film for you. It was an instalment in the Your Children series of films produced between 1945 and 1951, dealing with various facets of children's health - in this case, the importance of play to both mental and physical...

Short documentary about British education in the late 1930s.

Consideration of the social problems arising out of evacuation.

'A colour sound film funded by the Koornong School in Warrandyte, Victoria. Produced to promote awareness of the school’s activities, in particular its cooperative approach to school management, the film illustrates the traditional left ideal of collective action and again deploys the rural ideal...

Trawlers at work; the crew on board and landing a catch. The fishing crew are seen with their families on shore shopping and enjoying themselves in the pub. Life aboard a West Coast trawler under arduous and dangerous wartime conditions.

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

Part of the BFI six-part series entitled "Your Children and You."

A journalistic survey of Britain's road traffic problems and a plea for the adoption of a National Road Plan.

Short World War II documentary showing how the everyday work of British housewives aided the war effort.

In the 1940s, Brotherhood of St Laurence founder, Father Gerard Tucker, commissioned three short, silent films which were screened to audiences in the affluent suburbs of Melbourne and rural Victoria. 'Beautiful Melbourne', 'Gaol Does Not Cure' and 'These Are Our Children' were made on a shoestring...

Social documentary short from Australia, on the welfare of children, especially those from a poor background.

This Ministry of Information film does ‘what it says on the tin’. It is a straightforward, ‘no frills’ demonstration of how to store roots vegetables outside by a traditional method known as ‘clamping’, which had been used for centuries.