Movies: Public information film

A provoking film on the place of women....

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

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

A former Doctor Who returns to Earth to deliver a road safety message....

With its simple and iconic imagery this was public information film at its most sensational: expensive special effects and high-concept production design brought public information filmmaking into the realm of state-of-the-art corporate advertising. ...

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

Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks"....

Basil Brush comes to the rescue of potential careless bathers....

Hard-hitting depiction of the danger to children of burns and scalds....

This anti-smoking public information film has the kind of stylistic sheen often associated with 1980s British advertising, with its sci-fi setting, filtered smoke and gloomy aesthetics clearly inspired by the works of Ridley Scott (although it’s dire...

Abstract public information film regarding the practice of safe sex....

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....

A man extols the enjoyment that can still be had in a bath restricted to the wartime allowance of five inches of hot water....

Featuring the voiceover of Sir Anthony Hopkins, this public information film from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society starts out rather innocently with beautiful hand-painted animation. It describes how once a year a large group of pilot whale...

Ernie tells Eric to ‘be wise’ and not drive home after their Christmas party....

John Hurt narrates this highly charged and doom-laden public information film from the 1987 AIDS awareness campaign. A cliff-face explodes in slow motion; an industrial drill bores into a huge block of rock; the word 'AIDS' is chiselled into the poli...

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

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

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

Sid James learns of the joys of owning a budgerigar....