Bfi Movies

1950s Soho beats with far more energy than its 21st century counterpart in this vivid time capsule.

Time lapse photography shows the swarm of commuters at London Waterloo station racing about at top speed.

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

“Chicago’s Titanic” the S.S. Eastland, a Great Lakes passenger ship in which 844 people lost their lives, is brought up from the seabed.

Independent Welsh filmmaker Karl Francis uses amateur and professional actors to explore the community impact of the 1975 closure of the Ogilvie Colli...

Documentary examining what it means to live in South Wales, made in collaboration with and focusing on the lives of the Butts family. Explores the eff...

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...

An ironic love letter to the British drama/documentary tradition.

An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.

Charming animated illustration of one of nature's wonders from Britain's most inventive pioneer of wildlife filmmaking.

Follow a group of boys as they learn forestry, map reading, camping, canoeing and rock climbing.

Queen Victoria and family experience the new 'cinematograph process'.

David Gladwell (Requiem for a Village) was just 20 years old when he made A summer Discord, an imaginative amateur, silent short film set in the count...

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

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

The mischievous Pimple takes to the bottle.

Model husbands prove that size isn't everything as they get steamed up over Lilliput locomotives.

Probably the first ever cricket film: Indian cricketing royalty prepares for the first test between England and Australia at Sydney.

The campaign for women's suffrage steps up as Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested at the gates of Buckingham Palace.