Shell Film Unit Filmes

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

A BAFTA award documentary about the threats of floods in Australia, the special water schemes devised and the forerunner of these projects, the Snowy...

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

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

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...

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

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 featuring the Vickers "Valiant" aircraft in flight and on the ground.

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 winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts...

A documentary tracing the development of the helicopter from the original Da Vinci drawings to the modern versions actually in service in 1951.

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the famous Italian motor race from April 26th, 1953.

Part two in a three part documentary series looking at how supersonic flight might be achieved in the future.

A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated reworking of a 1957 documentary using models and animation to explain the need to mix air and petrol in the correct...

A documentary concerned with engineering projects connected with developing North Sea oilfields, specifically the Auk and Brent fields.

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