Strand Film Company Popular Movie

The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: David Farrar

An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Burgess Meredith

Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: David Farrar

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.

Genre: Documentary

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A playful and affectionate look at London Zoo and the people and animals who make up its daily life.

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A 1936 documentary film about the London to Portsmouth railway. A lesser known contemporary of Night Mail, also featuring the music of Benjamin...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Geoffrey Tandy

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.

Genre: Documentary

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Two lovers search for some privacy to kiss during the blitz.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anne Firth

A short documentary about the work of the National Trust in Great Britain

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frederick Grisewood

'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)

Genre: Drama

Cast: Véra Flory

A romantic tour of Britain set to Dylan Thomas's poetry.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Burgess Meredith

A short documentary to demonstrate what can be done with Technicolor film and to show various other colourful products.

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Cast: Joseph Macleod

Two case studies highlighting the work of the National Council of Social Service: the conversion of a barn into a village hall in South Cerney,...

Genre: Documentary

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This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries.

Genre: Documentary

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Tomorrow is Theirs examines provisions for secondary school education during the war, arguing for the importance of maintaining excellent, thorough...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joseph Macleod

Made in 1941, this stirring Ministry of Information dramatisation tells the story of a Crusader tank crew trapped behind enemy lines in the Desert....

Genre: War

Cast: Norman Williams

A real Buckinghamshire schoolteacher - the kindly Mrs James - is the star of this persuasive WWII propaganda film. Shot on location in Ashley Green,...

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Anti nazi short.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bryan Herbert

Women from a variety of professions sign up to join a volunteer group looking after barrage balloons. Working through all weathers and all hours,...

Genre: Documentary

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A description of Lloyd’s services to world shipping and the story of a voyage from Valparaiso to Hull. The S.S. Armadillo, ‘100 A...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leslie Mitchell