Michael Balcon Movies

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a...

Take your seat for an Armistice concert by military bands playing a medley of songs commonly sung during WWI.

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

A spoof of the Topical Budget newsreels with items on "Daylight Saving", "Economy in the Household", "The Art of Self Protection", and "Paris...

A man rescues his wife's lover during a disaster at a coal mine

'Lady's son poses as chauffeur to woo girl who buys taxi.' (British Film Catalogue)

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under...

An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!

From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators....

A young riveter working high up on a steel girder watches a girl practising a tap-dance in a building opposite, and while applauding her, he loses...

A marooned sailor and his stowaway sister-in-law are rescued by her husband.