Shell Film Unit Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Part two in a three part documentary series looking at how supersonic flight might be achieved in the future.

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 concerned with engineering projects connected with developing North Sea oilfields, specifically the Auk and Brent fields.

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

A short documentary looking at the science of life itself and at the international collaboration involved in it's study.

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

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

A documentary investigating the science, aerodynamics and technologies involved in enabling aircraft to travel at speeds approaching or surpassing...