Public Information Film Movies

  • 1970
    Facts and Figures or Whatever Happened to Dick

    Facts and Figures or Whatever Happened to Dick

    Facts and Figures or Whatever Happened to Dick

    01970HD

    Unambiguous message, unpretentiously inventive animation and a blackly comic tone.

    Facts and Figures or Whatever Happened to Dick
  • 1947
    Playing with Fire

    Playing with Fire

    Playing with Fire

    01947HD

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

    Playing with Fire
  • 1995
    Knobs in Space

    Knobs in Space

    Knobs in Space

    01995HD

    Abstract public information film regarding the practice of safe sex.

    Knobs in Space
  • 1944
    Grain Harvest

    Grain Harvest

    Grain Harvest

    01944HD

    A delightful animated appeal to help bringing in Scotland’s harvest, made by the legendary Lotte Reiniger.

    Grain Harvest
  • 1976
    The Iron Graveyard

    The Iron Graveyard

    The Iron Graveyard

    01976HD

    This color educational film is a driver's safety film about city driving. There is no copyright at the beginning or end of the film so the date of...

    The Iron Graveyard
  • 1963
    Information Program Within Public Shelters

    Information Program Within Public Shelters

    Information Program Within Public Shelters

    01963HD

    This Cold War film "Information Within Public Shelters" (1953) takes place in a fallout shelter, showing how a well-trained staff that provides...

    Information Program Within Public Shelters
  • 1963
    Planning For Emergence From Public Shelters

    Planning For Emergence From Public Shelters

    Planning For Emergence From Public Shelters

    01963HD

    A training film for public shelter managers explaining when people should be allowed to leave the shelter after a disaster.

    Planning For Emergence From Public Shelters
  • 1987
    Monolith

    Monolith

    Monolith

    01987HD

    John Hurt narrates this highly charged and doom-laden public information film from the 1987 AIDS awareness campaign. A cliff-face explodes in slow...

    Monolith
  • 1973
    Broken Glass

    Broken Glass

    Broken Glass

    01973HD

    As part of a wider anti-litter message, this film addresses the problems of rubbish left on beaches.

    Broken Glass
  • 1948
    Women in Industry

    Women in Industry

    Women in Industry

    01948HD

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

    Women in Industry
  • 1944
    Cold Comfort

    Cold Comfort

    Cold Comfort

    01944HD

    A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short.

    Cold Comfort
  • 1940
    Herrings

    Herrings

    Herrings

    01940HD

    This informative herring aid from WWII makes no bones about the need to make the most of every fish.

    Herrings
  • 2000
    Smoking Drill

    Smoking Drill

    Smoking Drill

    02000HD

    Anti-tobacco PSA by the Arizona Department of Health Services, with its campaign aimed at teenagers which ran between the mid-90s to early 2000s....

    Smoking Drill
  • 1948
    Robinson Charley

    Robinson Charley

    Robinson Charley

    01948HD

    No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.

    Robinson Charley
  • 1947
    Fair Rent

    Fair Rent

    Fair Rent

    71947HD

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

    Fair Rent
  • 1946
    It Might Be You

    It Might Be You

    It Might Be You

    01946HD

    A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.

    It Might Be You
  • 1975
    Only a Fool Breaks the 2 Second Rule: Pile-up

    Only a Fool Breaks the 2 Second Rule: Pile-up

    Only a Fool Breaks the 2 Second Rule: Pile-up

    01975HD

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

    Only a Fool Breaks the 2 Second Rule: Pile-up
  • 1948
    Copy Book Please

    Copy Book Please

    Copy Book Please

    01948HD

    This short post-war film was made to inform people how to address a letter correctly.

    Copy Book Please
  • 1943
    In Which We Live: Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself

    In Which We Live: Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself

    In Which We Live: Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself

    01943HD

    Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.

    In Which We Live: Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself
  • 1971
    Granny Gets the Point

    Granny Gets the Point

    Granny Gets the Point

    01971HD

    A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation.

    Granny Gets the Point