BFI - Tales from the Shipyard - Britain’s Shipbuilding Heritage on Film (1898-1974)

From scenes of jubilant workers celebrating spectacular launches in the early 1900's to King George V and Queen Mary's morale-boosting trip to Northern England’s shipyards at the tail end of the Great War; from Sean Connery’s perspective on Glasgow's industrial relations in 'The Bowler and the Bunnet' (1967) - the only film Connery has ever directed - to lyrical documentaries in celebration of industrial might such as 'Shipyard' (Paul Rotha, 1935) and the Oscar-winning 'Seawards the Great Ships' (Hilary Harris, 1960), this collection charts Britain’s shipbuilding heritage through famous documentaries, little-known cinematic gems, and emotive actuality films.

Disc One:
- The Launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall (E. P. Prestwich, 1898)
- Employees Leaving Messrs Vickers and Maxim’s in Barrow (Sagar Mitchell & James Kenyon, 1901)
- Workforce of Scott & Co. Shipyard, Greenock (Sagar Mitchell & James Kenyon, 1901)
- The Launch of HMS Dominion (Sagar Mitchell & James Kenyon, 1903)
- King Edward VII Launches HMS Dreadnought from Portsmouth Dockyard (1906)
- SS Olympic (1910)
- The Launch of HMS Lowestoft (1913)
- Visit of Their Majesties the King and Queen to the North-East Coast Shipbuilding and Engineering Works on the Wear (1917)
- Shipyard (Paul Rotha, 1935)
- RMS Queen Mary Leaves the Clyde (1936)
- Chains (1939)
- Steel Goes to Sea (John E. Lewis, 1941)
- Tyneside (W. Gordon Duncalf, 1941)
- The Little Ships of England (1943)
- Shipyard for Colliers (Peter Pickering, 1948)
- Berth 24 (J. B. Holmes, 1950)

Disc two:
- We’ve Come a Long Way (Allan Crick & Bob Privett, 1951)
- The Sea Shall Test Her (Jack Howells, 1954)
- Seawards the Great Ships (Hilary Harris, 1960)
- A Great Ship (John Reeve, 1962)
- The Bowler and the Bunnet (Sean Connery, 1967)
- UCS 1 (1971)
- Launch (Murray Martin & Peter Roberts, 1974)