Strand Film Company Movies

Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.

Made in 1941, this stirring Ministry of Information dramatisation tells the story of a Crusader tank crew trapped behind enemy lines in the Desert....

A playful and affectionate look at London Zoo and the people and animals who make up its daily life.

An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and...

The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man...

Tomorrow is Theirs examines provisions for secondary school education during the war, arguing for the importance of maintaining excellent, thorough...

Anti nazi short.

This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries.

'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)

A romantic tour of Britain set to Dylan Thomas's poetry.

A real Buckinghamshire schoolteacher - the kindly Mrs James - is the star of this persuasive WWII propaganda film. Shot on location in Ashley Green,...

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.

A short documentary to demonstrate what can be done with Technicolor film and to show various other colourful products.

A short documentary about the work of the National Trust in Great Britain

Women from a variety of professions sign up to join a volunteer group looking after barrage balloons. Working through all weathers and all hours,...

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.

Two lovers search for some privacy to kiss during the blitz.

Two case studies highlighting the work of the National Council of Social Service: the conversion of a barn into a village hall in South Cerney,...

A 1936 documentary film about the London to Portsmouth railway. A lesser known contemporary of Night Mail, also featuring the music of Benjamin...

A description of Lloyd’s services to world shipping and the story of a voyage from Valparaiso to Hull. The S.S. Armadillo, ‘100 A...