Most Viewed From Shell Film Unit

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

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 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 looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases.

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

A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for...

A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and...

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

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

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.

A short introduction to Indian classical dancing.

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...

A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made for the Festival of Britain.

A documentary investigating the science, aerodynamics and technologies involved in enabling aircraft to travel at speeds approaching or surpassing...

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

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

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

A documentary demonstrating the De Havilland "Comet 1" jet airliner with it's four 'ghost' engines.

A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications...

An introduction to the sport of flying model aircraft. Made with assistance of the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers.