Bfi Movies

Four minutes of heavily cut-up sound and vision with collage, animation and multiple exposures throughout.

'Our Day' badges and flags being sold in aid of wounded WWI soldiers are shown in this Topical Budget film.

You're asking for trouble when you play with fire - and this public information film is the stuff of nightmares.

The Painter and the Engines (1967) follows painter David Shepherd’s race against time to record on canvas the magic and romance of steam during the lo...

The Mysore Palace shines with 100,000 lights in a dazzling 400-year-old celebration.

The lengthy process of building a Claughton class locomotive is shortened through the magic of moving image.

Impressionistic glimpses of London life from early morning to rush hour.

This rare film of stage actor and later cinema star Tod Slaughter opens with a view of St Paul's over the river and the bright lights of Piccadilly at...

The devil makes the biggest splash at Cookham's famed regatta.

London street scenes, showing varieties of horse-drawn traffic. Views of Parliament Square, Charing Cross, Pall Mall, the Royal Exchange and others.

Sarah is an outgoing, young school girl who thinks she’s met her soulmate in boyfriend, James. She begins to realise that things aren’t perfect, howev...

Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.

Accompany a couple on their visit to a local wildlife park.

Adventures on a fishing boat as told by two young boys who experience what it takes to be a fisherman at sea.

A couple's untraditional early morning ritual is observed in a short drama which originally supported Polanski's The Tenant in UK cinemas.

An observational exploration of routine, monotony, attention and distraction. Will we continue to let events pass us by uncontested, or will we decide...

In the East End of London, crowds gather to watch Jewish millionaire Bernhard Baron unveil an important new building.

Documenting the production of kerosene tins and their reuse in rural India, this early short by Bimal Roy observes industrial labor and everyday life...

A combination of Lightning Sketches along with stop-motion animation illustrate England's reactions and responses in World War One.

Contemporary life in Plymouth in the 1960s – plus some history.