Bfi Movies

The Peak District waits invitingly within a sixty-mile reach of half the population of England. To this green centre of a great industrial area, the f...

Traditional games, dancing and music among the people of Sikkim - in vivid colour.

Told with authenticity and perception, David looks back on the life of a school caretaker in a Welsh mining town, from the marriage and birth of his s...

//_sleeper is a short animation set in a dying, industrial town both familiar and unfamiliar. This is neither future nor past, but rather somewhere lo...

Outside the huts of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12 stand the smiling figures of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Dr Edward Wilson. Wilson...

Mad, bad' poet Lord Byron and a lobster thermidor feature in a melancholy tour of Seaham with Johnny Morris.

Arresting early film images of both northern India and central and south western China.

Fireworks, illuminations and traditional dance all feature in a stunningly opulent royal wedding at Kundla, Gujarat.

Poignant scenes of Allied troops enjoying their Yuletide rations at the first Christmas of WWI.

Frank told a bad joke at his new place of work. Nobody laughed. Now at 3am in the morning he is unable to sleep as he obsesses and ruminates over this...

A mysterious woman recruits a Cabinet doorman and an ex-civil servant for a plot to bring down the British government.

Join the working men of a northern powerhouse: on the job in Gateshead workshops and at the long wall of a Northumberland pit.

A brief romantic encounter, directed by Howard Blake, composer of the score for The Snowman. A young woman meets a man at a London party. They are qui...

A pools winning family with over Ј8,000 to spend can have a holiday anywhere they like. But they forgo the Costas for Skegness - but decide to do it i...

A clumsy oversized cyclist causes chaos.

In this animated short, a half-naked woman dances with her black-suited partner.

Four examples of the kind of carelessness that leads to fires in this country frequently.

The home and family life of incoming Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.

Black Five is filmed around Carnforth station in Lancashire, a location which had been the setting for the archetypal railway romance, David Lean’s Br...

Short film by Michael Maynard