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- A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
- During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.
- A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.
- An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.
- When a scientist threatens to detonate a powerful bomb in the heart of London, Scotland Yard has just seven days to find him before it is too late.
- 1942 and the island of Malta is battling for survival. The threat of invasion by Axis forces is increasing as air raids wear down its defence. Entering this maelstrom is Flight Lieutenant Peter Ross, an RAF photo-reconnaissance pilot.
- A radioactive, mud-like creature terrorizes a Scottish village.
- Sent to destroy a German petrol dump in the North African desert, a British commando team unexpectedly discovers a large German tank unit, and must inform headquarters in time.
- During WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi-occupied France.
- This film tells the stories of seven 'gentle' British girls who decide to "do their bit" and help out during World War II.
- A secret London school trains a motley group of men and women for sabotage work in German occupied Belgium during World War II. When one of them is captured by the Germans, five others are parachuted in to rescue him.
- In 1901, a group of IRA members decides to rob the Bank of England in order to finance their movement and to embarrass the British government.
- In 1940, a concentration camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.
- A French singer is captured by the Germans and made to broadcast for them.
- In 1949, during the Chinese Civil War, British warship H.M.S. Amethyst sails up the Yangtse river but on the return trip, finds its way blocked by a barrage of fire from the Communist Chinese shore batteries.
- During WW2, Italian Navy divers use underwater chariots to mine the keels of British warships, forcing the British to send underwater demolition expert Lionel Crabbe and his team to counter these enemy actions.
- On the eve of WWII, a British journalist is sent to neutral Norway to report on the possible Nazi intentions there; later he's tasked with a secret combat mission after Germany invades that country.
- British N.C.O. Sergeant Major Charles Coward (Sir Dirk Bogarde) escapes from the Stalag VIII-B P.O.W. camp, and is mistakenly awarded with the Iron Cross by the Germans.
- During World War II, British commandos are sent to destroy a Luftwaffe airfield on a Greek island.
- During WW2 in North Africa, an American sergeant serving with the British 8th Army is captured by the Germans but he hatches various plans of escape from the POW camp.
- In 1940, an American claiming to be Canadian volunteers for the British Army's paratroop school.
- A court-martial attempts to find out why, and if, an officer embezzled his unit's funds.
- Three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces for a planned invasion.
- The story of men in the Guards Armoured Division in WWII, from basic training through to battle.
- Ex regimental commander Colonel Merton catches one of his former NCOs burgling his house and investigates to find the reason behind this desperate act.
- In 1940, a British engineer goes to France to retrieve specialized armaments machinery, loaned to the French, before the invading Nazi armies can capture it.
- Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
- Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
- The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they cam be relieved.
- A film presented by the British War Office for newly arrived World War 2 American soldiers, informing them of British ways.
- An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
- R.A.F. recruitment in animated form, telling a wordless history of flight through the dreams of a trainee airman.
- War Office film warning soldiers of the dangers of contracting venereal disease.
- Through the use of newsreel footage and re-enacted sequences, this B.I.P. production, modelled along the lines "The March of Time" shorts, presents a record of the highlights of the previous twenty-five years, to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V. It depicts incidents starting with his coronation. and on through political problems, woman suffrage, strikes, trade expansion, World War I, and the depression, while also showing the changes in living style and progression.
- Ministry of Information dramatized vocational film on assistance in finding jobs after the Second World War.
- This is a tribute to the British Army which shows troops off duty in Malta, Tripoli, Suez and Malaya, including shots of a Malayan jungle patrol.