Bfi Movies

Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film.

A hard-hitting public information film made at the height of the Great Influenza 1918-18.

A large crowd and choir, on an historic day at York Minster, greet the arrival of a replacement big bell, watching and singing as labourers manfully s...

Beautiful documentary record of the royal visit to Teesside in 1956, shot in gorgeous Kodachrome.

A compilation of scenes from Shakespeare adaptations made in the earliest days of cinema, including versions of King Lear, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Rich...

A desperate mother risks everything, providing a final lifeline for her son.

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

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

Ron Peck talks about his experiences of growing up as a gay man, the attitudes to homosexuality in Britain, and his journey towards making his film "N...

//_sleeper is a short animation set in a dying, industrial town both familiar and unfamiliar. This is neither future nor past, but rather somewhere lo...

The Green Cross Man helps a young boy cross the road safely.

Crowds block the streets to catch a view of a handsome old carriage at a Jewish wedding.

Made possible through a unique UK-wide collaboration of national and regional publicly-funded film archives, Lost Connections draws on a century of ar...

Unambiguous message, unpretentiously inventive animation and a blackly comic tone.

George Bernard Shaw’s illustrious friends pay tribute to his talents – with anecdotes, artefacts and one-liners.

The future Edward VIII visits Malakand, Kapurthala and opens the Royal Military College at Dehra Dun

The children of Peterborough run rings around comedian Tommy Handley and other dignitaries during a city sports day.

During an unusually harsh winter, a frozen trawler arrives on the river Thames.

Amateur footage of the devastation caused by one of South Asia's worst earthquakes.

In an English coastal border town, a small band of badgers live in the shadow of an animal quarantine facility. As they struggle to keep their folk tr...