Bfi Movies

'Billy Merson, the great Nottingham-born music hall performer, presents one of his signature numbers. The film clearly captures Merson's comic brilli...

The second part of a recording from the US senate committee's hearings into organized crime that would influence many future crime films.

The first part of a recording from the US senate committee's hearings into organized crime that would influence many future crime films.

Short film by Michael Maynard

It’s all me, me, me – this experimental animation on the Self wittily wraps up Jung and old philosophies in a Paul Klee-inspired design.

The second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.

A documentary feature looking at examples of Barbara Hepworth's sculpture set against the Cornish settings that inspired them.

A five day drive up Britain's highest peak in a 1911 Ford Model T.

Public warning film on road safety for children - 3 small children meet Death.

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a British youth organisation founded in 1920 as an alternative to the Scout movement. This edition of the Topical Bu...

This short, silent film captures one of Britain's minor little railways: the Leek and Manifold Light Railway on the Staffordshire Moorlands. The railw...

Enjoy pre-dinner cocktails in the company of organ maestro Nick Olson, tickling the ivories at Uncle Tom's Cabin, Minnis Bay, Birchington.

This daft comedy stars funny-duo Fred and Joe Evans in a battle to secure an inheritance from an insane uncle.

Two Indian women wash a baby with a jug of water, while a man with a turban sits behind them.

A 1935 black and white film advertising London and exolting it's most popular tourist attractions.

Colonial recruits from Trinidad meet the Lord Mayor of London during WWI.

Using only one camera, remote controlled mirrors and an external tilting device, Lacey alternates the perspective of angular planes on his face into t...

Sail away to a bygone Cornwall in this wistful coastal travelogue.

Large crowds gather for cricket week at Canterbury's St Lawrence Ground, as Kent take on Sussex and Nottinghamshire.

The BFI's fascinating collection of 60 short films all made before 1911 aims to give wider access to some of the extraordinary film material held in t...