Shell Film Unit

A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for his own safety and for the safety of others.

A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts geologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and scientists from other disciplines piecing together the clues to man's rise from ice age hunter to builder of complex societies more than 2000 years before Columbus set sail for the New World.

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 celebration of Shell Petroleum, tracing its manufacture from discovery in oil fields to its eventual use as fuel for modern living across the globe.

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

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

A BAFTA award winning documentary on the basic principles and applications of hydrostatics.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the work of supply ships to North Sea oil rigs. Described by members of the crew, it focusses on the difficulties posed by the unpredictable weather conditions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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