Bfi Movies

Director Maureen Blackwood harnesses the distinctive style of the Sankofa Film Collective to sketch the Abrew family tree. The achievements of the uni...

Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi.

Cinema a century ago was a new, exciting and highly democratic form of entertainment. Picture houses nationwide offered a sociable, lively environment...

Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English col...

This film focuses on the basics of adapting to life in England.

Colourful commemoration of Royal Yacht Britannia's majestic visit to Leith in 1956, courtesy of Messrs Joseph and J Arthur Rank.

Amateur shots of pilgrims and temples at Haridwar, followed by rural scenes and the Gorrie family at home.

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends wel...

Whistlestop tour of Dartmouth in Devon, taking in the 17th century Butterwalk arcade and medieval castle.

The ornate pavilions of cinematographs, boxing booths and menageries at Hull Fair.

An extended humorous public information film (lasting around fifteen minutes) narrated by Richard Wattis.

Tensions arise amidst the heat of a busy Pakistani takeaway.

Dogs and cats go on show at two princely London venues – among them some of the fluffiest kittens London is ever likely to see.

Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry.

Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.

A lovingly crafted home movie charting the maiden voyage of the Brown family's new yacht.

The 1948 London Olympics see Wembley stadium host the athletics plus diving and the swimming at the Empire Pool.

Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants.

Martha has stopped listening to her intuition and her life begins to suffer. After a strange encounter, she starts to reassess and begin her journey o...

Activities leading up to the launch of a large ship built at the Swan Hunter's Wallsend shipyard.