The Life of the Butterfly

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and ev...

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...

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...

Time Stood Still is a 1956 Warner Brothers Scope Gem travelogue, filmed the previous year in Dinkelsbühl, and presented in the wide-screen format of C...

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

A day in the life of a train station.

A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.

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

This short is one of Paramount's "Popular Science" series (number L6-5, or the fifth one of the 1946-47 production season) and begins by showing moon...

This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.

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...

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

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

Ballroom dancers Veloz and Yolanda perform the various dance fads of the first half of the twentieth century.