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Shows how A.B.C.A. (Army Bureau of Current Affairs) was started as an experiment in 1941 and became an integral part of the training of every British soldier, some of the weekly meetings in full swing, and the training given to officers who conduct…

Using maps and animated diagrams, the importance of the Middle East in Allied world strategy is shown. Austere images and narration inform the viewer of the strategic issues at stake: control of oil production, its role as a wall obstructing supply…

A Soviet-British co-production reporting to the Allied nations on the lives of children in the Soviet Union, providing "a glimpse of the Soviet child from infancy to high school." Portrays an idyllic and well organized system for educating and caring…

Deals with Britain's treatment of mental health in wartime. Shows a specialized hospital for military and civilian patients and gives a picture of its organization and operation, including diagnostic and therapeutic methods, occupational therapy,…

Shows the British system of casualty stations, emergency hospitals, and convalescent homes established in and around London for maintaining the fight against sickness and caring for wartime casualties. The film starts with a peaceful evocation of…

Laurence Olivier's reading of passages from Milton, William Blake, Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling and Abraham Lincoln accompany scenes of daily life in wartime Britain. The texts selected emphasize national identity and heritage, patriotism, and…

This short nonfiction film depicts the intensive testing that goes into developing and producing new military equipment, here the propeller engine of a fighting plane. It opens with the whirring or propeller blades. Animated diagrams show how the…

This 1943 film by documentarian Paul Rotha uses found footage and animated diagrams to discuss the production, distribution, and consumption of food; the prewar problems of overproduction and the anomaly of glutted markets and hungry people; the…

Deals with Britain's treatment of mental health in wartime. Shows a specialized hospital for military and civilian patients and gives a picture of its organization and operation, including diagnostic and therapeutic methods, occupational therapy,…

The true story of the massacre of Lidice, a small Czech village, by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales. The film brings home the horrors of the German massacred by relocating it to a tradtional mining village in the British isles. The…