Movies: Shell Film Unit

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 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...

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

1958 Shell trade test film following the progress of the 1958 Alpine Cup rally across southern Europe. First showing: 22nd October 1959 (Experimental BBC London Local Tests). Final showing: 7th November 1968....

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 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....

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....

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

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

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Le Mans 24 hour race won by Mercedes-Benz....

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases....

A BAFTA special award nominated documentary examining the principles of cutting metal with power-driven tools....

A BAFTA special award nominated documentary following the post-war construction of an immense oil refinery near Manchester in the UK....

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

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

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

A short introduction to Indian classical dancing....