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Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.

Short film showing (with limited accuracy) the life-cycle of myxomycetes.

The pictures show how the ailanthus silkmoth and the red admiral spin silk and weave a cocoon, and the way in which the change from caterpillar to...

Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a...

Charting the military escapades of serial bungler Tommy Josser, Josser in the Army sees the hapless hero in France during wartime, where he...

A British silent crime film directed by J. O. C. Orton

Documentary detailing a farmer’s visit to the market in Rawalpindi.

Beneath the waves are mountains, plains and valleys full of life: here the conger, the octopus, and the wrasse hunt for food; shrimps and prawns act...

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

In France the husband of a purity league leader runs a shady nightclub.

A young boy dreams he's on a guided tour of Buckingham Palace and various countries in the British Empire.

In 1925, with the cooperation of the War Office, British Instructional Films set out to make a dramatic, feature-length reconstruction of the five...

Mosses are seen on walls, old roofs and in hedgerows.

These pictures show the marvellous industry of the Bee, the ingenuity it exercises in making its home, and the ordered programme of life that it...

The nightingale and its song, its habitat, nest eggs and young.

A patrol of twelve soldiers is lost in the desert and killed by the tribesmen, but the sergeant makes sure that one of the tribesmen dies for every...

During World War I, the British navy disguised some of its warships as civilian cargo ships, known as Q Ships, in order to fool the Germans. German...

A comedy film directed by J. O. C. Orton.

The film shows a cuckoo caught in the act of laying an egg in the nest of two titlarks. The egg is hatched by the foster-mother, and she and her mate...

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring the conflict between two colonies of wood ants joined by a piece of tiber laid across a...