Shell Film Unit Movies

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

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

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

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

A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts...

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

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 Britain's new diesel "Fell" 10,000 locomotive.

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

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

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 demonstrating the De Havilland "Comet 1" jet airliner with it's four 'ghost' engines.

A brief feature on the short SA-4 aircraft on the ground and in the air.

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at bilharzia - a disease that affects some 200 million people worldwide.

Highlights from the 1950 Isle of Man motor cycle race won by Geoff Duke.

1958 Shell trade test film following the progress of the 1958 Alpine Cup rally across southern Europe. First showing: 22nd October 1959 ...

An overview of the 1955 Belgian Grand Prix by Shell Oil. Watch the racing heroes of the 1950's conquer the tarmac in one of the picturesque racing...

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

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

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.