Strand Film Company Movies

How Somerton, Oxfordshire benefits from membership of the Village Produce Association during WWII.

An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and...

British documentary on how the community of Ulster got converted to war times.

A romantic tour of Britain set to Dylan Thomas's poetry.

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.

The film sequences were represented by the premiere of the now thought lost short 'Cover To Cover' directed by Paul Rotha. This short film...

A playful and affectionate look at London Zoo and the people and animals who make up its daily life.

A real Buckinghamshire schoolteacher - the kindly Mrs James - is the star of this persuasive WWII propaganda film. Shot on location in Ashley Green,...

A short documentary about the work of the National Trust in Great Britain

Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.

A popular study of relative anatomy and physiology with particular reference to size and weight.

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.

Propaganda film, capturing “the work of the government’s training camps and instructional centres for unemployed men.” - NFA...

'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)

A short documentary to demonstrate what can be done with Technicolor film and to show various other colourful products.

Tomorrow is Theirs examines provisions for secondary school education during the war, arguing for the importance of maintaining excellent, thorough...

The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man...

Made in 1941, this stirring Ministry of Information dramatisation tells the story of a Crusader tank crew trapped behind enemy lines in the Desert....

A description of Lloyd’s services to world shipping and the story of a voyage from Valparaiso to Hull. The S.S. Armadillo, ‘100 A...

This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries.