Gaumont British Instructional Movies

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the...

Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.

The Secrets of Life series (1934-50) may not conform to modern expectations of nature filmmaking, inclined as it is towards giving cute fluffy...

History - and natural history - filmed on location in Selborne, East Hampshire. This unusual edition of the long-running series Secrets of Life tells...

A Secrets of Life short about the sawfly.

They Made the Land (1938) is a documentary showcasing how land in Scotland was reclaimed and cultivated for agriculture. It explores the challenges...

A Secrets of Life short about the production of seeds.

A Secrets of Life short.

A Secrets of Life short about the Sparrow Hawk.

A Secrets of Life short about the tawny owl.

E.V.H. Emmett narrates this propaganda short about how sacrifices on the home front support the war effort.

"If they were as rare as orchids we would probably rave about them" opens this film in the Secrets of Nature series, directed by the prolific Mary...

Explores the natural history of the otter, depicted through the fictitious account of a day in the life of Otto the Otter and his mother. The...

This film shows how and why the animals which inhabit a pond are dependent one on another for their survival. We see the minnow in pursuit of water...

A retired Major's efforts to hone his golf skills are thwarted by the diminutive but defiant common daisy.

A Secrets of Life short.

A Secrets of Life short about the movement of animals.

Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold...

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War...