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- Advance Democracy
- UK 1938 Dir Ralph Bond-Basil Wright
- The Bowes Line
- UK 1975 Dir Murray Martin
- The Bridge
- Netherlands 1928 Dir Joris Ivens
- Challenge to Fascism
- UK 1938 Dir Helen Biggar
- Children at School
- UK 1937 Dir Basil Wright
- The Children Must Learn
- USA 1941 Dir Willard Van Dyke
- The City
- USA 1939 Dir Willard Van Dyke
- Coalface
- UK 1935 Dir Alberto Cavalcanti
- Contact
- UK 1933 Dir Paul Rotha
- Conversations with Willard Van Dyke
- USA 1981 Dir Amalie R Rothschild
- The Cumberland Story
- UK 1947 Dir Humphrey Jennings
- De Overval (The Silent Raid)
- Netherlands 1962 Dir Paul Rotha
- A Diary for Timothy
- UK 1945 Dir Humphrey Jennings
- Dim Little Island
- UK 1949 Dir Humphrey Jennings
- Drifters
- UK 1929 Dir John Grierson
- Eastern Valley
- UK 1937 Dir Paul Rotha
- Enough to Eat
- UK 1936 Dir Edgar Anstey
- The Face of Britain
- UK 1935 Dir Paul Rotha
- Fairy of the Phone
- UK 1936 Dir William Coldstream
- Film and Reality 1895-1939
- UK 1942 Dir Alberto Cavalcanti
- Fires Were Started
- UK 1943 Dir Humphrey Jennings
- The Fourth Estate: A Film of a British Newspaper
- UK 1940 Dir Paul Rotha
- From Marks and Spencer to Marx and Engels
- UK 1988 Dir Prod: Amber Films
- Frontiers of News
- USA 1963 Dir Willard Van Dyke
- Glassworks
- UK 1978 Dir Murray Martin
- Happy in the Morning
- UK 1938 Dir Alberto Cavalcanti
- Hell Unltd
- UK 1936 Dir Norman Mclaren-Helen Biggar
- High Row
- UK 1974 Dir Murray Martin
- Housing Problems
- UK 1935 Dir Edgar Anstey-Arthur Elton
- Indonesia Calling
- Australia 1946 Dir Joris Ivens
- Industrial Britain
- UK 1931 Dir Robert Flaherty
- John Grierson at the National Film Theatre
- UK 1959 Dir Hazel Wilkinson
- Keeping Time
- UK 1983 Dir Sirkka-Liisa Konttiney
- Kensal House
- UK 1937 Dir Frank Sainsbury
- The King's Stamp
- UK 1935 Dir William Coldstream
- Land of Promise
- UK 1946 Dir Paul Rotha
- Laurie
- UK 1978 Dir Peter Roberts
- Listen to Britain
- UK 1942 Dir Humphrey Jennings
- London Can Take It
- UK 1940 Dir Humphrey Jennings
- Mai
- UK 1975 Dir Murray Martin
- Maybe
- UK 1969 Dir Murray Martin
- New Earth
- Netherlands 1934 Dir Joris Ivens
- People of Britain
- UK 1936 Dir Paul Rotha
- Pett and Pott
- UK 1934 Dir Alberto Cavalcanti
- The Photographer
- USA 1948 Dir Willard Van Dyke
- The Plow That Broke the Plains
- USA 1936 Dir Pare Lorentz
- Power and the Land
- USA 1940 Dir Joris Ivens
- Quayside
- UK 1979 Dir Murray Martin
- Rain
- Netherlands 1929 Dir Joris Ivens
- Roadwards
- UK 1934 Dir Paul Rotha
- Roadways
- UK 1934 Dir Stuart Legg-William Coldstream
- The Saving of Bill Blewitt
- UK 1936 Dir Harry Watt
- Seacoal
- UK 1985 Dir Murray Martin
- Shipyard
- UK 1935 Dir Paul Rotha
- Song of Ceylon
- UK 1935 Dir Basil Wright
- The Spanish Earth
- USA 1937 Dir Joris Ivens
- Spare Time
- UK 1939 Dir Humphrey Jennings
- Speaking From America
- UK 1939 Dir Humphrey Jennings
- T Dan Smith
- UK 1987 Dir Prod: Amber Films
- The River (1938)
- USA 1938 Dir Pare Lorentz
- Today and Tomorrow
- UK 1936 Dir Ruby Grierson
- Today We Live: A Film of Life in Britain
- UK 1937 Dir Ruby Grierson-Ralph Bond
- Traces Left
- UK 1983 Dir Alan Lovell
- Tyne Lives
- UK 1979 Dir Murray Martin
- Valley Town
- USA 1939 Dir Willard Van Dyke
- Words and Actions
- UK 1943 Dir Max Anderson
- Words For Battle
- UK 1941 Dir Humphrey Jennings
- Workers' Films of the 1930s
- UK 1981 Dir Victoria Wegg-Prosser
- World of Plenty
- UK 1943 Dir Paul Rotha
- World Without End
- UK 1953 Dir Paul Rotha
- Writing in the Sand
- UK 1991 Dir Prod: Amber Films
