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A celebration of one of Britain's great civic squares. A ceaseless flow of buses and people crisscross the beating heart of the city.

Martha has stopped listening to her intuition and her life begins to suffer. After a strange encounter, she starts to reassess and begin her journey...

Top-hatted pedestrians and horse-drawn traffic pass over Blackfriars Bridge in London.

An exhortation to drivers to pay attention to road safety. In just 15 minutes, John Krish manages to give this road safety film something new and...

All hands to the pump! This demonstration of a 125 year old fire engine shows it can still be useful when the need arises.

Public anxiety about war from the air is all too real for the people of Ramsgate in this newsreel footage of the aftermath of a Zeppelin raid.

On the morning of, Bev and her family anticipated the verdict of her son’s trial.

Short documentary about Chaplin's year at Essanay. Clips from Chaplin films but also from other Essanay films.

Power cuts, housing shortages and exorbitant rents – Aberdeen man goes head to head with his greedy landlady.

Men have a race to win a girl and get involved with crooks posing as a beautifying machine.

Two ladies in their seventies drive through north County Sligo in a neat Japanese car. As they pass by village pubs and beaches, they imagine the...

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

A guide to going metric from the Central Office of Information on behalf of the Metrication Board.

A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.

An array of brave 1950s water skiing girls and guys bring a bit of Hollywood glamour to the chilly waters of Loch Earn.

Rare amateur footage of East India.

This film focuses on the basics of adapting to life in England.

It's fun and frolics with a pagan tinge from Brighton Beach in the 1950s.

A holiday of sorts for Stockport army reserves, fitting high-jinks between drills over two weeks of summer training in South Wales.

The ornate pavilions of cinematographs, boxing booths and menageries at Hull Fair.