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

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.

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

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

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

A documentary looking at a day at Croydon Airport south of London.

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

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

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

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...

1958 Shell trade test film following the progress of the 1958 Alpine Cup rally across southern Europe. First showing: 22nd October 1959 ...

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

Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.

An introduction to the sport of flying model aircraft. Made with assistance of the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers.

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