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21st June 2021
Central Office of Information: 75 years
Explore films produced by the UK government's communications agency
17th June 2021
Digitisation on Demand
Access hidden gems in IWM's collections with our on-demand digitisation service
21st January 2021
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
Award-winning lost masterpiece of British documentary cinema Blu-ray/DVD re-release
19th October 2020
Digital Futures
IWM embarking on five-year digitisation project to preserve Cold War era collections
21st July 2020
Showreel: VJ Day Celebrations
VJ Celebrations of 1945 caught on film
20th June 2020
Curator's Choice: The Blitz
Senior Film Curator Jane Fish highlights footage of London under fire
6th May 2020
Archive in Action: VE Day 2020 Commemorations
VE Day programming featuring IWM licensed content
24th April 2020
Bringing in the Harvest
British public information films encouraging volunteers to take a 'holiday' on a farm.
20th April 2020
Inspiration for the nation: your morning exercise routine
Joe Wicks 1940s style PT workout
23rd January 2020
Showreel: VE Day Celebrations
VE Day celebrations in London on film
13th January 2020
Curator's Choice: Salvage Saves Shipping
An animated short about recycling
11th December 2019
Post Early this Christmas
The Ministry of Information recognized the capacity of animated films to entertain as well as educate in wartime Britain
6th November 2019
Curator's Choice: Undercover in Norway
Film Curator Fiona Kelly highlights an amateur film featured in the BBC series Lost Films of World War II
6th November 2019
Amateur film of life behind the Berlin Wall
IWM acquires unseen footage of family life in West Berlin during the early days of the Berlin Wall
7th October 2019
IWM films air nationally for first time on Talking Pictures TV
Rarely seen wartime era films to air nationally for the first time on Talking Pictures TV
17th September 2019
Competition: Win tickets to Duxford Battle of Britain Airshow
As well as historic aircraft flying overhead, an on-site cinema will be screening a selection of IWM films.
28th August 2019
Remembering The Battle Of Arnhem 75 Years On
'A bridge too far': Unique footage reveals how Allies' Operation 'Market Garden' fell apart
12th July 2019
Dan Snow meets Alfred Hicks, a cameraman who filmed D-Day
The British Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) produced some of the most enduring images of the Second World War