Shell Film Unit Movies

A BAFTA award winning documentary. Locations for the film range from Alaska and the southwest of the USA to the Eastern woodlands. It depicts...

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

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...

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

A BAFTA award nominated short feature studying river pollution in Europe and how it can be overcome by the treatment of urban and industrial wastes.

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

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

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

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

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.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary tracing the development of the gear from the first recorded use in a crude form over two thousand years ago to...

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

A BAFTA award nominated documentary tracing the history of paint and it's components from the paintings of the stone age to the the late 1960s.

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

Highlights from the 1949 British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.

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

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

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

A documentary looking at Britain's new diesel "Fell" 10,000 locomotive.