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Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the...

A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.

Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort.

The Secrets of Life series (1934-50) may not conform to modern expectations of nature filmmaking, inclined as it is towards giving cute fluffy...

Part of the Junior Biology series, this study of pin mould is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

Documentary about the building of ships at Barrow-in-Furness.

Story of young boy and girl who help aircraft designer to outwit gang of spies trying to steal secret plans.

Explores the natural history of the otter, depicted through the fictitious account of a day in the life of Otto the Otter and his mother. The...

The film shows speeded-up germination of the seed to form roots and shoot, at whose base the leaves later form a bulb. The flower produces pollen...

A Secrets of Life short.

Documentary highlighting how land has been reclaimed for agriculture in Scotland.

This promotional film bills the market town of Newark as central to the farming industry, with an array of regional produce and livestock. It was...

The film opens in January, showing scenes of a frozen pond and shots of the fields. followed by young cattle, or store cattle, being turned out to...

"If they were as rare as orchids we would probably rave about them" opens this film in the Secrets of Nature series, directed by the prolific Mary...

A Secrets of Life short.

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and...

Using diagrams, 'Atlantic' explores the history of the empires surrounding the Atlantic Ocean over the last 600 years.

Captures the lives, habits and habitats of London’s pigeon population.