Videos and Films

There are some wonderful films and videos which are set in Coastal Forces.  Feature Films can be purchased online with some available on streaming sites. The information films are now out of copyright and are generally available on streaming sites such as YouTube.

Feature Films

Hell Boats

An American Commander is assigned in 1942 to a Royal Navy Motor Torpedo Boat flotilla based in HMS GREGALE in Malta. A great story of the support given by Coastal Forces to the invasion of Sicily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsyNKhg3HHM

The Ship that Died of Shame

Made in 1955, this is the story of a Second World War Motor Gun Boat, and her wartime crew, who succumbed to the demobilised lure of easy black market money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwXCCdWhKHA

Information Films

The Broad Fourteens

A wonderful British propaganda film made in 1945, but never released to the public due to the war ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzJDVhuMaI8&t=11s

The Fighting Sea Fleas

A Canadian production focussed on the RCN Coastal Forces contribution to battles in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gNSBZT2Tt8&t=35s

The Little Ships of England

A 1943 British propaganda film that tells the story of the Royal Navy’s smallest ships in battle with the Germans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPUQnJ1Eoic