Shell Film Unit Movies

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 short feature studying river pollution in Europe and how it can be overcome by the treatment of urban and industrial wastes.

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

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

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

A documentary record of the 1953 Mille Miglia, tracing the race across Italy from Brescia to Rome and back.

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

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

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

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

Documentary highlights of the 1951 Monte Carlo Rally and its international competition.

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Farnborough International Air Show.

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

A documentary feature explaining the principles of Schlieren photography, which makes any phenomenon that changes the refractive index of transparent...

A historical documentary tracing the development of powered flight from early aviation pioneers to the postwar jet age, focusing on Britain’s...

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