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  • 1964
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    Veteran Car Rally, Brighton

    Veteran Car Rally, Brighton

    1 1964 HD

    Vintage vehicles on parade in this amateur film record of the longest-running motor event in the world.

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  • 1965
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    Immigrants

    Immigrants

    1 1965 HD

    A fascinating, unsettling study of immigration in 1960s English cities.

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  • 1975
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    Only a Fool Breaks the 2 Second Rule: Pile-up

    Only a Fool Breaks the 2 Second Rule: Pile-up

    1 1975 HD

    A mysterious stranger foreshadows Death, but is good enough to give a handy driving safety tip along the way.

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  • 1965
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    Dulais Valley

    Dulais Valley

    1 1965 HD

    Master baker, owner of Duffryn Bakery, Onllwyn, turns his hand to film-making and captures community events in glorious colour.

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  • 2019
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    Trucker's Atlas

    Trucker's Atlas

    7.00 2019 HD

    Two power-line repair men work across rural areas of the UK in peace. When one returns from a family bereavement, the quiet working relationship they...

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  • 1945
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    A City Reborn

    A City Reborn

    1 1945 HD

    Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas.

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  • 1938
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    N or NW

    N or NW

    6.20 1938 HD

    Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...

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  • 1973
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    'Ave You Got a Male Assistant Please Miss?

    'Ave You Got a Male Assistant Please Miss?

    6.00 1973 HD

    A production of Oxford Polytechnic for sponsor the Family Planning Association, this is an unreservedly hairy promotion of the prophylactic in...

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  • 2016
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    Lifeline

    Lifeline

    8.00 2016 HD

    A desperate mother risks everything, providing a final lifeline for her son.

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  • 1943
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    In Which We Live: Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself

    In Which We Live: Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself

    1 1943 HD

    Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.

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  • 1996
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    The Russian Idea

    The Russian Idea

    4.00 1996 HD

    The Russian entry in the BFI’s Century of Cinema series of documentaries

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  • 1929
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    A Day on the Broads

    A Day on the Broads

    1 1929 HD

    With their gramophone perched on the back of their launch, the family set off for a day of rest and relaxation on the Broads and Suffolk coast.

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  • 1971
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    Granny Gets the Point

    Granny Gets the Point

    1 1971 HD

    A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation.

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  • 1977
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    Above Us the Earth

    Above Us the Earth

    1 1977 HD

    Independent Welsh filmmaker Karl Francis uses amateur and professional actors to explore the community impact of the 1975 closure of the Ogilvie...

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  • 1912
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    Delhi Durbar and Coronation

    Delhi Durbar and Coronation

    1 1912 HD

    Jaw-dropping pomp and pageantry at the 1911 Delhi Durbar

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  • 1960
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    A Letter for Wales

    A Letter for Wales

    6.00 1960 HD

    Donald Houston plays a Welshman who tells the story of what it's like to live in small town Wales and how the train service helps.

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  • 2014
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    Will You Dance With Me?

    Will You Dance With Me?

    3.50 2014 HD

    Derek Jarman’s Will You Dance with Me? is an essential document of LGBTQ London that was unseen until 2014, 30 years after it was originally...

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  • 2012
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    From the Sea to the Land Beyond

    From the Sea to the Land Beyond

    1 2012 HD

    From the Sea to the Land Beyond is a film about the British coast made from 100 years of our film heritage stored in the British Film Institute...

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  • 1914
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    Fox Hunt

    Fox Hunt

    1 1914 HD

    The Beaufort hunt meets in Chipping Sodbury before riding out in pursuit of their quarry.

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  • 1962
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    Comprehensive School

    Comprehensive School

    1 1962 HD

    The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.

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