Silent Britain

Actor Ned Beatty hosts a look at the genre known as "exploitation" films. Interviews with some of the producers and directors of these films are shown...

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China. Th...

This video essay, featuring film scholar Leonard Leff, addresses the 1938 Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes' British context and political under...

Meryl Streep is one of the most versatile and successful actresses of all time and is still considered a superstar after 50 years of career. She fasci...

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci

The film summarizes the origin and development of animated film at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

Covering over 100 years of cinema, this is a journey of discovering and exploring the magic of cinema from a personal perspective. Looking at the chan...

A memory of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962),woman, actress, goddess, myth, in the words of the Spanish director and scriptwriter José Luis Garci, who retu...

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision to move to France and to marry director Yves Ciam...

A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad...