Bfi Movies

Beautiful documentary record of the royal visit to Teesside in 1956, shot in gorgeous Kodachrome.

Tody is a lonely bird slaving his life away in a packaging factory. He dreams of a better life in the sunshine with someone there who actually cares i...

Wonderful glimpse of the Wimbledon tennis championship at its former home on Worple Road, including some of the era’s top male and female players.

The 'Century of Cinema' is an 18-part series produced by the British Film Institute to celebrate 100 years of cinema. The series includes films direct...

Ilford's Fairlop Plain provides the battlefield for ploughing matches between local hands and Essex outsiders.

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

With their gramophone perched on the back of their launch, the family set off for a day of rest and relaxation on the Broads and Suffolk coast.

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...

A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.

The daughter of famed actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree gets hitched to a military Captain during WWI.

A miser is reformed by visions of past, present and future.

A look at a family living in Stoke-on-Trent in the 1940's and what it's like working in the pottery factories that Stoke is famous for.

Master baker, owner of Duffryn Bakery, Onllwyn, turns his hand to film-making and captures community events in glorious colour.

Ever had a good experience with doorstep salespeople? Maybe you were lucky, but the doorstep has never seemed the best place for a sensible sales deci...

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

Traffic chaos and parking pandemonium in London is nothing new around the capital.

A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks so...

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...

Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.

Basil Brush comes to the rescue of potential careless bathers.