Bfi Movies

In the East End of London, crowds gather to watch Jewish millionaire Bernhard Baron unveil an important new building.

A new piazza proposed for Leicester market is met by public opposition. This is a city described by one local historian as unromantic, so what do the...

A holiday of sorts for Stockport army reserves, fitting high-jinks between drills over two weeks of summer training in South Wales.

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

A Group of unemployed Edinburgh youths embark on a recreation of Roald Amundsen's historic expedition to the South Pole.

When Sheena and Javed meet the mutual attraction is palpable. But can Sheena escape the past that brings them together?

Ruth (Aimee-Ffion Edwards) wakes inside a featureless spaceship; she's no memory and is kept alive by a plastic tube connected to her lower back. Ruth...

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

Magpie lives in an isolated church community ruled over by her father, The Pastor. When a man is murdered, paranoia sets in and people start to whispe...

A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation.

Scenes from a lavish pageant held during the royal visit to India, celebrating King George V’s coronation.

In suburban London, on New Years Eve in 1999, an Afghan housewife lives cut off from society by her controlling husband. In secret, with the aid of a...

Toby is selling his childhood home. Walking through empty rooms, he is assailed by memories of happiness unravelling, break-down, and the helplessness...

Do you look back on the optimism of the 1997-2001 era as a lost golden age, or do you see it as a period of naïvety, delusion and folly? There’s a lot...

Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.

King George V and Queen Mary hold ceremonial court in Delhi.

Moving record of a once-thriving East End Jewish community on the cusp of enormous change.

A day in the life of the Manchester Evening News.

Victims of a tragic air crash are honoured in a sombre military funeral procession through the streets of Hitchin.

Fashion designer Amy Powney is at the peak of her career, but she’s troubled by her industry’s wasteful practices. Fashion Reimagined follows her tran...