Okujongwe kakhulu Ukusuka 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...

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....

Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of...

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

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...

This film explains how sneezing in public can spread disease, and shows how using a handkerchief can stop it.

About the war effort in the West Indies.

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...

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...

Surrealism, avant-garde sound montage, and irreverent wit might be the last thing you'd expect from a government-sponsored film about wartime...

World War II propaganda film.

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.

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...

How to make porridge using a haybox.

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

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...

Short WW II documentary

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...

Bernard Miles and Percy Walsh play two members of the Home Guard, on duty by a windmill, discussing the causes of the war and the issues at stake.

A 1941 Ministry of Information propaganda film set to the tune of The Lambeth Walk, a popular song from the musical Me and My Girl.