Bfi Movies

The thronging streets of Chennai in festive mood are captured by this lively amateur film.

Learn how to climb Great Gable in the Lake District, via the Arrowhead ridge climb.

The majestic rebirth of Manchester's Bradford Colliery and other stories.

A man extols the enjoyment that can still be had in a bath restricted to the wartime allowance of five inches of hot water.

The inauguration of a unit of the Indian Defence Force in Calcutta.

A bright outlook in Birkenhead for a thriving British enterprise.

A look at some of the 3000 men who go through miners' rehabilitation centres each year, of whom 19 out of every 20 go back to mining.

The screen legend conducts a personal tour of the great city that shaped him.

Toni, aged 13, doesn't fit in at school. One day, everything takes a turn for the worse, but the internet comes to save her.

Biography of Marlene Dietrich using interviews, film clips and rare footage of the actress, including her own home movies.

Hear the Lama band, see the sacred dances: welcome to Sikkim, in the shadow of the Himalayas.

Young scholars get busy for Newcastle-on-Tyne's 'Education Week' in the tour of Tyneside classrooms.

Filmmaker Peter de Rome talks about his career and some of the many projects he never finished.

Michael Palin guides us on suicide in this humorous public information film on motorway safety.

Maeve returns home to Belfast after a long absence. Her arrival in the city stimulates a series of memories of childhood and adolescence both in herse...

Ernie tells Eric to ‘be wise’ and not drive home after their Christmas party.

This amateur film gives us a fair idea of the opulent life enjoyed by members of the British government in India.

A young boy’s toys come to life through animation.

A dead officer's German wife betrays 'Hampshire's' secret route.

Film capturing a family holiday on the North Antrim coast, with trips to the Giant's Causeway and the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge.