Shell Film Unit Movies

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 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.

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 nominated documentary following the work of supply ships to North Sea oil rigs. Described by members of the crew, it focusses on the...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Highlights from the 1949 British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone.