Coi Movies

Designed to promote the National Cycling Proficiency Scheme: an N.C.P.S. student competes with another boy in a private cycling competition,...

Colin Welland presents this public information film about the hazards of nighttime driving.

Teenagers Sandy and Alan are keen motorcyclists, but while Sandy insists on getting proper training, Alan refuses, even though this makes him twenty...

Impressions of contemporary British arts and fashion. Summary of art through the ages taking in every thing from Mary Quant to the Marat/Sade...

Documentary about Sir Terence Conran, an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.

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

A short film to warn children of sexual predators.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Britain Beware is a documentary about the history of COI's infamous British public information film hosted by Adrian Edmondson.

A film made for the Central Office of Information concerning Britain's coastline, with music by Michael Nyman.

A look at the work of a policeman in rural Scotland.

Filmed partly in Urdu, Insaaf (Injustice) is a public information film aimed at Britain’s South Asian communities. Produced through the Central...

This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh undertook an official visit to the region in February 1966, as documented in this film. The destinations on this...

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

Watching Sierra Leone Greets the Queen gives one a flavour of the hectic nature of royal tours; in just one week (from the 25th November to the 1st...

Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provides trained agents, arms and other assistance to the European resistance groups fighting against...

In the middle of a six-week tour of the Indian sub-continent between January and March 1961, the Queen and Prince Philip visited Pakistan and East...

An account of the state visit to Britain by the President of India, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, in June 1963. In London he accompanied the Queen on...

The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.