COI at 75

A couple goes out for a drive, but their car has clearly seen better days - and so have its tyres.

One of several highly entertaining films from Richard Massingham about the dangers of uncontrolled sneezing.

Eleanor Roosevelt and Michael Redgrave narrate this optimistic post-war film on the rehabilitation of disabled people with polio.

John Krish’s deeply compassionate documentary on the resettlement of refugees in Britain; made to mark World Refugee Year 1959.

The Sewing Machine is a disturbing, 60 second road-safety film in which a mother, who sits at her sewing machine inside her house, warns her daughter to stay on the pavement, to no avail.

Kitsch public information filler inspired by the classic arcade game

Terrifying public information film presenting the horrific consequences of playing in or near rivers, ponds and other water hazards.

There will be blood: a public information film that engages the mind and tugs the heart.

An innovative drama-doc, one of the first to deal seriously with clinical depression

A Ghanaian fashion student and a Nigerian squash player are among the Africans making a life in 70s Britain in this edition of the magazine show.

A former Doctor Who returns to Earth to deliver a road safety message

A circus act – of sorts – combines with gallows humour in a shatteringly effective reminder to "clunk, click" even on the shortest trip.

An extremely unusual, deeply fascinating public information film - targeted at the South Asian community and filmed partly in Urdu.

Super location footage enlivens this drama-documentary on Sheffield's steel industry.

Kathleen Byron - of Black Narcissus fame - stars in one of the most ambitious recruitment films ever made.

National insurance made amusing by the eccentric Richard Massingham.

The anti-smoking campaign starts here, with the first ever anti-tobacco film – and very impressive it is too.

Nurses needed: this early 21st century recruitment video makes fascinating viewing today.

Wrestling as a metaphor for race relations in this short aimed at Britain's South-Asian community

Visit the places important to London's Muslim community in this informative short documentary.

A series of interviews about life in the capital with Muslims living and studying in London

Power cuts, housing shortages and exorbitant rents – Aberdeen man Norrie Williamson goes head to head with his greedy landlady

The Stroud valleys of Gloucestershire in glorious Technicolor - and with a Laurie Lee script.

Who needs to talk to strangers when you're the only one who can understand the garbled mewling of your best buddy cat, Charley?

Stylish 70s road safety film with a sting in the tail.

The Ministry of Labour exhorts women to return to industry – the post-war production drive depends on them.

Dover gets a makeover in this offbeat and pointed public information film.

Beautifully evocative impression of a Sunday in early postwar Edinburgh.

Simple and devastatingly effective, a key advert from the UK's first major AIDS awareness campaign.

Portentous imagery and John Hurt’s grave voiceover define this key film from a £5 million campaign to combat the AIDS epidemic.

Follow the remarkable intercontinental process of 1970s steel manufacture, from Liberian iron ore to titanium jewellery.

How will Britain respond to the plight of thousands of refugees?

Charley says (no, not that one) that Britain’s new towns are great

Hold please. Enter a distinctly British bureaucracy as the post-war Civil Service learns to be civil on the telephone

What the Devil made you start smoking?

Stark 70s firework safety film which mixes the everyday and the uncanny

David Prowse (the frame of Darth Vader) appears as the iconic Green Cross Code Man, heaping praise on a young GXC expert.

Ken Loach makes Public Information Film shock!

One of Benjamin Britten’s best-known pieces, The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, was composed for this film.

You're asking for trouble when you play with fire - and this public information film is the stuff of nightmares

Gripping glimpses of modern nursing - on the frontline at Guy’s Hospital.

Frank Thornton – Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served? – gives a pedestrian a road test in this snappy public information film.

Is this the scariest public information film ever? This hard-hitting warning against 'stranger danger' was considered too distressing to be broadcast on television.

John Krish’s haunting fire prevention film prowls through a carefully designed burned-out shell of a set.

Need some post-war parenting advice? Then this is the film for you.

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Harwell's nuclear research establishment and the peaceful applications of atomic energy.

Experience the futuristic delights on offer at London's South Bank during the Festival of Britain

Wouldn't budge an inch for a centimetre? This guide to the new-fangled system of metrication may change your mind.

Join John Cleese and the cast of Monty Python and the Holy Grail on location in Scotland

Ernie tells Eric to ‘be wise’ and not drive home after their Christmas party

Glenda Jackson talks about acting for theatre and for the camera

Eye-opening drama-doc, originally used in psychiatric nursing training.

Think once... think twice... think bike! A memorably two-fisted public information filler.

Notorious British safety film in which young Jimmy makes the fatal mistake of trying to retrieve his Frisbee.

“I’d much rather work at a computer than make wicker baskets” – disabled people hit the mainstream in 1980s Britain

Short public information film showing housewives' efficient and hygienic methods of food storage

Aberdeen's local fishermen turn into wildcatting oilmen in a lively report from the early days of the North Sea oil boom.

A witty, eccentric guide to safety on two wheels under the watchful eye of a pedalling angel.

Teachers and pupils of 3 schools in Trafford, Stevenage and Coventry make the case for the acceptance of difference without discrimination.

What do "I'm Backing Britain", electronic music and nuclear lighthouses have in common? Nothing at all, but they're all here in this 60s TV magazine show.

Dusty the kangaroo catches a shadowy figure in the act of dumping an old mattress in this campaigning cartoon

Cinemagazine London Line looks at the support available in London for African students and their families.

Reported cases of sexually transmitted disease took a sharp rise during and after WWII, as back on the home front people like Joan from number 19 were indulging in extra marital promiscuity ... An archive government warning film.

A mysterious stranger foreshadows Death, but is good enough to give a handy driving safety tip along the way

Are you out of your tiny mind? Then let glam star Alvin Stardust be your lollypop idol

Home safety is child's play if you have the feline guardian angel of the 70s on hand

One of the most disturbing public safety films depicts six children being picked off one-by-one by deadly farming machinery.

"The most exciting thing going on in Europe, if not the world": welcome to Milton Keynes circa 1973.

Dig down the back of the sofa for your lost shrapnel: old coinage is phasing out as Britain prepares to go decimal.