Shell Film Unit Movies

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

A short introduction to Indian classical dancing.

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

Highlights from the 1950 Isle of Man motor cycle race won by Geoff Duke.

A BAFTA award nominated reworking of a 1957 documentary using models and animation to explain the need to mix air and petrol in the correct proportion...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary reviewing the 1958 Alpine Rally.

A documentary featuring the Vickers "Valiant" aircraft in flight and on the ground.

Highlights from the 6th Farnborough Airshow in 1951.

Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Le Mans 24 hour race won by Mercedes-Benz.

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

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

A documentary demonstrating the De Havilland "Comet 1" jet airliner with it's four 'ghost' engines.

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

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.

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

A documentary feature explaining the principles of Schlieren photography, which makes any phenomenon that changes the refractive index of transparent...

Follows the life cycle of the desert locust.

Britain's part in the emergence of air travel is followed from the Wright brothers to the De Havilland Comet.

An overview of the 1955 Belgian Grand Prix by Shell Oil. Watch the racing heroes of the 1950's conquer the tarmac in one of the picturesque racing ci...