Two films about overseas personnel helping the British war effort. In West Indies Calling (1943) we see Caribbean nationals serving in the RAF, hospitals and logging.

Presented by Una Marson and Learie Constantine.

In Letter From Ulster (1943) we see US airmen serving in Northern Ireland, touring the countryside and writing a letter home. Music score by William Alwyn.

VHS version. Running time: 50 mins, b/w.

Three Scottish films from 1946 about rural issues, many still relevant today.

In The Glen Is Ours is a timless parable of poiticians at odds with the will of their electorate, recently de-mobbed Hector Andrews fights an election to stop Cadisburn Glen being sold.

The two Scottish members of the Pattern of Britain series are also included:

Crofters takes a look at everyday life in the crofting community of Achriesgill in Sutherland. and North East Corner sees a retiring Fraserburgh Skipper comparing his life with that of a modern fisherman and farmer.

Directors: George Haslam, Ralph Keene, John Eldridge. Producers: Edgar Anstey, Ralph Keene.

VHS running time: 75 mins b/w.

The classic 1960 technicolor film, Seawards The Great Ships, directed by Hilary Harris about the shipyards of the Clyde and the men who worked there. Scotland's first Oscar winner. Click here for film clip from Seawards The Great Ships. The programme also includes The River Clyde (1939) directed by Stanley Russell.

VHS running time: 50 mins colour & b/w.

Kay Mander's filmed survey of twenty-four square miles of rural Oxfordshire was part of a 1943 project to better understand the use made of the countryside in order to facilitate better planning. Filmed in 1946 Twenty Four Square Miles shows in detail the use made of the land for farming and industry and the social fabric of the towns and villages and how they are managed. With commentary by John Arlott. Directed by Kay Mander. A Basic Films Production.

Included also is a lovely film of the village of Harting on the Sussex Downs, An English Village.

VHS running time 62 mins b/w.

Broadcast originally on BBC2 Wales on the 70th anniversary of the 1934 Gresford, Wrexham, mining disaster which claimed the lives of 266 miners.

The Terrible Price tells the story of the disaster using archive film and radio reports with the recollections of eye-witnesses and survivors, and relatives of some of the victims. The harrowing tale of neglect by the mine owners who knew of the dangers of gas is told with a re-enactment of the enquiry into the disaster. Includes 30 extra minutes of material not shown on the television programme.

VHS running time: 60 mins colour.

Ken Maynard stars in this terrific horror western from 1932. Passing through Tombstone Canyon, on a quest to find his real parents, Ken and Tarzan ride into an ambush and a range war. Ken sides with Colonel Lee's ranch and falls for his pretty daughter.

Who is the crazed phantom killer of the canyon? Why is he out to destroy the Lazy S ranch?

Intrigue, mystery, action and romance blend perfectly in this superb western.

VHS running time: 60 mins b/w.

The story of the second largest fish, the Basking Shark and how it was hunted almost to extiction for its fins and liver oil.

Made by Dundee-born film maker Walter Deas, this is a film with a strong conservation message about the once endangered peaceful plankton-eating fish.

Available on VHS only.