Bfi Movies

Find bric-a-brac and trinkets galore in this vividly colourful snapshot of Portobello Road Market.

Colourful amateur film showing family outings around Lancashire and a trip to Southampton to meet travellers from America.

A big day in the Scottish Borders is captured with astonishing clarity in this remarkable film commissioned by the local cinema.

A social club with washing tubs: take a tour of a 1950s Liverpool wash-house.

Hitchcock went the wrong way! Head south by southwest with this travelogue from Bath to Cornwall.

Rare insight into the health work of Methodist missionaries in rural Shaoyang, Hunan Province, South Central China.

As travelogues go this one doesn't quite cut it – good job Lanry household bleach can!

A noble English dance tradition is preserved in Hertfordshire.

A patchwork of East End colours and characters on Middlesex Street, better-known as Petticoat Lane.

An industrial epic plays out in steelmaking South Wales.

Female cyclists from all parts of London meet at the Angel Ditton, before cycling to Wisley for a picnic.

Take a tour de France as cyclists double up for a tandem race through Paris's Bois de Boulogne.

The adrenaline rush of a race at South London's famous velodrome at the height of a cycling boom.

Large crowds are gathered to see Captain Scott's Terra Nova at Cardiff's Bute Docks as the ship moves away from the quay on her voyage to Antarctica.

Follow the happy couple from the family shop on Brick Lane to a garden party serenaded by the San Diego Dance Band.

England thrash Australia in the fifth Test at the Oval - but still lose the Ashes.

After playing their last match of the season, ten Clapton Orient players enlist for the 'Footballer's Battalion'.

Violet Asquith, daughter of the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, arrives at church to marry Maurice Bonham Carter.

Joyous scenes in Redruth, Cornwall at the wedding of a Nigerian couple in 1964 - who incorporate both British and traditional attire into the day's fe...

This film footage of the Ziegler North Pole expedition was reissued in Britain by Charles Urban in 1909 when all things Polar were of almost obsessive...