Bfi Movies

Made to foster relations between the local residents of Rhymney, in south Wales, and the church.

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 President had been due to visit twice before, but on both occasions the trip had to be cancelled. The first time was in 1963, the same year as the...

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

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.

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

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

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...

What’s the hidden message inside this intriguing film, shot at a Salvation Army establishment in western India?

Documentary looking at a century of cycling. Commissioned to mark the arrival of the 2014 Tour de France in Yorkshire, the film makes full use of stun...

Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry.

Arthur Johns' 10-minute experimental film is a personal essay on colour effects, set to a hypnotic soundtrack by Robert Wyatt. Although his initial ar...

Take your seat for an Armistice concert by military bands playing a medley of songs commonly sung during WWI.

2-6 March 1961 saw the Queen and Prince Philip make their first and only state visit to Iran. Their host was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (1919-80),the Shah...

The sun shines down when PM Lloyd George is in town.

Tyneside shipyard Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson turns out a beast of a tanker for the Argentine Navy.

Is there anyone out there? Cheshire's Jodrell Bank observatory aims to find out with its new giant radio telescope.

A film produced to celebrate the coronation of George V as King-Emperor at the Imperial Durbar of 1911.

The Ministry of Labour exhorts women to return to industry – the post-war production drive depends on them.

The British Fascist movement holds a 10,000-strong rally in Trafalgar Square the day before Remembrance Sunday.