Public Information Film Movies

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

Coast Guard film about the importance of life jackets. Stresses safety in boating and shows how boating accidents can happen.

This Cold War civil defense film attempts to persuade viewers that building a home fallout shelter is a smart thing to do, and they are easy and...

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

Warning children not to play near 'dark and lonely' water, a horror film style look and voice-over is used in this film to highlight the dangers.

An explicit anti-rape film.

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

This 14-minute animated video looks at the ways children and young people respond to grief, and what the adults around them can do to help. It gives...

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

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

The effortlessly comic abandons the stress of his city job to work on a farm.

Short public information film showing housewives' efficient and hygienic methods of food storage.

A haunting fire prevention film about keeping matches out of the hands of children.

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

A guide to going metric from the Central Office of Information on behalf of the Metrication Board.

Featuring the voiceover of Sir Anthony Hopkins, this public information film from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society starts out rather...

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

Educational film for a campaign against wife battering in 1985 in The Netherlands.

Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine.

Explains the first aid treatment for burns and scalds to relieve pain, to prevent or treat shock, and to prevent infection. Discusses the different...