Spotlight on Key Workers

Indulge your nostalgia for the old-fashioned milk bottle with this Express Dairy promotional film from the 1950s.

Doctors undertake forensic-style detective work to identify the origins of outbreaks, in the fascinating film from the early days of the NHS.

With feeding the nation a wartime priority, agricultural workers are heralded as soldiers of the plough.

The flagship of the GPO Film Unit's output and a cornerstone of British documentary, featuring music by Benjamin Britten and the verse of W.H. Auden.

The Foel grocer delivers bread in a van; wool is gathered in Cwm Twrch; farmers in Co. Kerry take churns on carts to a creamery for distribution.

The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds (1940s-style) at a nursery in Guildford.

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

A postman's job is never done! The people of Musbury, Devon, are among the players in this fantasy vision of a postal future

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

Metropolitan Police officers demonstrate their paramedic skills in this early training film

Documentary insight into the work of the Jewish Welfare Board, helping some of the most vulnerable people in the community

Work hard, play hard, rest hard - this London County Council nursery in the East End strikes the right balance.

The fight to save the village shop at Hamstall Ridware heightens as shoppers fall for the allure of the new fangled supermarket.

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

Baths, bumps, fights and football all feature in this promotional film looking at social care for children under the London County Council.

A sweet educational film from the era of ink wells, pen nibs and butterfly nets.

The latest developments in healthcare on show at Walton-on-Thames community health centre

Crawley is the venue for a great gathering of buses and coaches to celebrate a half-century of Green Line services in this memorable film from Beryl Armstrong

Join the dial-a craze and receive spiritual comfort from the comfort of your own home.

Delivering bread is all in a day's work for this modern day work-horse.

Everything the fifties customer could possibly want can be supplied by the Co-op - as this nostalgic promotional film will show

A dramatic rescue from a burning building by heroic firemen is one of our most important films

Farming techniques and modern methods bring new crops to market.

Farming: hard work in all weathers - and not a job you'd associate with someone with a severe visual impairment.

These Land Girls are firm friends - and just as good at farm work as the men they replaced during WWI

Short film showing mounds of rubbish arriving in Willesden’s municipal tip, which workers attempt to filter and disperse.

The styles, streets and music of 1970s Nottingham are engagingly evoked in this industrial process film.

Illustrating the efficiency of express freight trains, and how they link manufacturers with their customers at the other end of Britain.

"London's Burning, London's Burning"... A dynamic early film of horse-drawn fire engines 'turning out' at Southwark Bridge Road.

Focusing on the wartime threat to north-west England, this charity appeal salutes the "angels with grimy faces"

Young scholars get busy for Newcastle-on-Tyne's 'Education Week' in this charming tour of Tyneside classrooms.

Examining a day in the life of what was then the busiest railway system in the world – British Railways.

A rough and ready student film goes on the buses in Durham, from early morning to the fag end of the day smokers still allowed in the 1970s.

Nonagenarian croquet players and Brighton day trips feature in this study of social services in Croydon, focussing on help given to the elderly, lonely, sick and disabled.

PC Jim Yates walks his beat on the streets of Notting Hill

Slicing ham by day, gliding across a dance floor by night - introducing Mr and Mrs Rainbird, proud owners of a grocery shop on Romford Rd, Newham.

See how stories made it onto the presses - the old fashioned way - in this fascinating and nostalgic film promoting the Portsmouth Evening News

The social work carried out by churches of all faiths in Britain, including a section on East End Jewish life

Unique amateur documentary: priests and parishioners in the Brentwood diocese

A pioneering law centre with a radical agenda: ‘bringing law to the people’ in the early 1970s.

Short documentary about how prison officers are trained and the impact this has at Wakefield maximum security prison.

St John Ambulance volunteers assist in a cliff rescue.

A film about the engineering brothers F. and A. Parkinson and the increased use of electricity.

Be it in cassock or country tweed, this rural vicar's role is certainly varied as he juggles his duties as clergyman, advisor, school governor, diplomat and pianist!

Life and local government in Maidenhead, Berks.

Fascinating glimpse of working life showing women operating machinery at the huge Telephone Cables factory in Dagenham in the late 1950s.

From schools to sewers, this film explores the roles and responsibilities of local councils, visiting almost every London borough in the process.

The inner-workings of local paper the Hertford Mercury are revealed by young, fresh-thinking reporter Peter Gibbs on his hunt for a regional scoop.

Glasgow police on their daily beat are kept busy protecting "your person and your property".

The romance – and reality – of working on the railways in a handsomely produced recruitment film made shortly before nationalization

The rural folk of Cheshire a promised a modern life of comfort via the magic of electrification.

WWII evacuees adapt to village life in a patriotic documentary starring a real Buckinghamshire school teacher.