Bfi Movies

A man reads a newspaper whose moving letters form 'Bill Bailey has come home'.

The 'Century of Cinema' is an 18-part series produced by the British Film Institute to celebrate 100 years of cinema. The series includes films direct...

One fateful Friday 13th, a man rubs a gold ring and turns into a chimpanzee...so he has a look around Dublin and Chessington Zoos.

Documentary profile of The Ship Hotel Public House, Gateshead.

Soon after the VE Day celebrations, there is a second chance to let the hair down, and these dancers make the most of it with much humour.

Recruits of Lord Kitchener's 'New Army' parade on Christmas morning.

You're asking for trouble when you play with fire - and this public information film is the stuff of nightmares.

1928-29 Irish Cup Semi-Final action between Ballymena and Coleraine, from Belfast's Windsor Park.

Remarkable amateur footage of Mahatma Gandhi shot by his great nephew in 1947.

The timber trade calls on animal help.

A short stop frame animation following a lonely Inuit who struggles to survive after an oil tanker leaks oil off the coast of Alaska, killing all the...

A portrait of Rastafarians living in Tottenham at the start of the new millennium.

Minimalist movie making at its best: kids learn the art of film language using illustrations and margarine boxes.

Feathered friends prepare to meet their fate in this seasonal newsreel outing to a Norfolk turkey farm.

Footage of Spurs players training before the new football season, followed by shots of White Hart Lane being prepared.

First we invented the moving-image camera. Then we used the new camera to record the world around us. But it was only when the moving image was finall...

The Polish entry in the BFI’s Century of Cinema series of documentaries

Scenes of WWI troops relaxing on Streatham Common, South London in a Topical Budget newsreel.

Don’t judge a book by its cover but do judge a political party by its garage.

Take your seat for an Armistice concert by military bands playing a medley of songs commonly sung during WWI.