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Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrate...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions a...

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials ar...

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957),on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the...

Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.

This French-Canadian co-production goes behind the scenes of the huge tobacco industry, whose economic power has been expanding for five decades at th...

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

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...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains...

Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy and obser...

A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produced propaganda film introduces the nature, sports,...

A far-out trip through two hours of psychedelic clips from 1960's hippie flicks.