Shell Film Unit Movies

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.

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

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

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 looking at a day at Croydon Airport south of London.

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

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

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

Highlights from the 1951 race from Monaco.

A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for h...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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