Shell Film Unit Movies

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Highlights from the 1951 race from Monaco.

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

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 showing highlights from the Le Mans 24 hour race won by Mercedes-Benz.

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 film made by Shell Films explaining the principles of the motor car engine.

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 BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and...

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

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases.

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