Moving History - a guide to UK film and television archives in the public sector

War-time

The Imperial War Museum Film Archive is specifically dedicated to the collection and preservation of film related to conflict in Britain and the Commonwealth through film of both military and civilian life. In addition, all of the UK's other film archives possess collections that feature aspects of life during war-time on the home front during the First and Second World Wars as well as other conflicts in the twentieth century. This material includes military action, the home guard and air raid patrol, war-time industrial production, public and family life during war-time, government propaganda, and the aftermath of war.

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A Defeated People (1946) Imperial War Museum
Air Raid Practice, Knoll School Hove (c.1940) Screen Archive South East
Der magische Gürtel (1917) Imperial War Museum
Desert Victory (1943) Imperial War Museum
Elworth School Presents School Life in War-time (1943) Imperial War Museum
Englische Kanalinseln (1941) Imperial War Museum
Holidays at Home (1944) Northern Region Film and Television Archive
Home Guard (1940 - 1945) East Anglian Film Archive
International Brigade (1938) BFI NFTVA - Non-Fiction Collection
Life of a WAAC (1918) Imperial War Museum
Scenes from the Ripon Highland Sports (1915) Yorkshire Film Archive
The 4/5th Battalions Lancs. Fusiliers on the March (1915) North West Film Archive
The Coming of the Camerons (1944) Scottish Screen Archive
The Falklands Play (2002) BFI NFTVA - Television Collection
The Planes of Hindustan (1940) Imperial War Museum
The Smiths and the Robinsons (1953) Imperial War Museum
UNTV - Video Letter 'Draga' (1994) Imperial War Museum
Workers' Week End (1943) Imperial War Museum

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