Worker and War Front No. 18

An enticing government call for men to retrain as skilled engineers to help with the war effort.

Wartime news magazine for factory workers, sponsored by the Ministry of Supply. News items often stressed the value of the 'factory front'.

A wartime magazine made to motivate and inform war workers, commissioned by the Ministry of Information in 1942 and exclusively screened in factories.

A Second World War propaganda film, looking at the industrial might behind Great Britain’s armed forces.

Shipwrights, plate-fitters and riveters support the war effort as their ships take majestic shape in this tour of British shipyards.

Meat and wheat, oranges and eggs (dried), salmon and peaches (tinned) arrive in Cardiff from Brazil, America, Canada and New Zealand to keep war-time’s wolf from the allied door.

Mickey realises his ticket is a different colour. Should he swap it?

Hackney teenagers - black, white, gay and straight - talk sex, love and marriage in this compelling drama-documentary.

Hackney Downs School Cadets in athletics training and competition, filmed by teacher Joe Brearley.

London schoolboys demonstrate impressive range of gymnastic moves for the cameras.

An entertaining study of community arts projects in Hackney, Hoxton and Dalston, before hipsters and Tony Blair.

Teachers in Hackney make the most of their urban location to inspire budding young scientists.

The director of a documentary about British funk pioneers Cymande joins the band at BFI Southbank to talk about the film.

Plotting world domination, Devil Doctor Fu-Manchu steals plans for a new aero-torpedo in this earliest surviving thrill-a-minute serial instalment.

Filmmakers Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss their documentary Scala!!!, revisiting the legendary and inspirational cinema venue and some of the most notorious films that screened there.

Long thought lost, this Powell-directed promotional short for a veteran’s charity was only rediscovered in 2003.

A poignant, stirring letter from a recently deceased pilot to his mother is read by John Gielgud.

Former Bristol Poet Laureate, Miles Chambers reads a poem specially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the NHS.