All Mediatheque films

The following is a list of titles currently available to view in the Mediatheque. A number of additional titles are currently unavailable, and will be restored as soon as possible.

Please note that a very small number of titles, marked with an asterisk (*), are currently available to view only in our London Mediatheque due to rights issues. We hope to make these available in all BFI Mediatheques in the future.

"Uppies and Downies"
1926 | 1 min
Thrilling sport or hideous brawl? Medieval football, the Ashbourne way.
Collection: Heartlands

28 Up
1984 | 160 min
The children first interviewed when they were 7 in 1964 are revisited at the age of 28.
Collection: Essentially British

3 Non-Blondes
2003 | 30 min
'Candid Camera' with attitude featuring the soon-to-be Little Miss Jocelyn.
Collection: Black Britain

The 39 Steps
1935 | 87 min
A boy's own adventure from London to Scotland. Hitchcock's best British film?
Collection: Essentially British

4D Special Agents
1981 | 60 min
A group of East End kids track down a gang of jewel thieves. To the helicopter, everyone!
Collection: Box of Delights

600-Year-Old Custom
1927 | 1 min
An eccentric sport courtesy of East Midlands tradition.
Collection: Heartlands

617: The Last Days of a Vulcan Squadron
1982 | 40 min
The final days of the 'Dam Busters' squadron.
Collection: Heartlands

64 Day Hero: A Boxer's Tale
1985 | 92min
The turbulent life and death of championship boxer Randolph Turpin.
Collection: Black Britain

84 Charing Cross Road
1975 | 75 min
Love among the second hand books.
Collection: Play for Today

ABC Xmas and New Year Greetings
1946 | 3 min
Santa doles out the pressies courtesy of Associated British Cinemas.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Abigail's Party
1977 | 100 min
Beverly hands out the brickbats with the 'little cheesy pineapple ones'.
Collection: Play for Today

Above Us the Earth
1977 | 85 min
The closure of Ogilvie Colliery by the National Coal Board, shown through a mixture of documentary footage and dramatisation.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

Absolutely Fabulous
1992 | 30 min
Sweetie darling! Edina's putting on a charity fashion show, and things aren't going to plan...
Collection: Brit Chic

The Acrobatic Fly
1910 | 3 min
Roll up, roll up! The fly circus is in town!
Collection: Pandora's Box

Adeste Fideles
1941 | 13 min
The spirit of Christmas is alive and well in wartime Britain.
Collection: Pandora's Box

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1958 | 30 min
Richard Greene plays Nottingham's infamous outlaw in a mythical Sherwood Forest.
Collection: Heartlands

The African Trade
1997 | 50 min
The story of the African man who was one of the true leaders of the abolitionist movement.
Collection: Exodus: Remembering Slavery

Age of Dissent
1994 | 51 min
Will Parry and Hugo Greenhalgh campaign to lower the age of consent for gay men from 21 to 16.
Collection: Beautiful Things

AIDS: Iceberg / Monolith
1985 | 2 min
Don’t die of ignorance - the government's infamous AIDS awareness campaign.
Collection: The Joy of Sex Education

Alfalfa
1987 | 9 min
The queer alphabet - from AC/DC to Zipper.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Alice in Wonderland
1903 | 8 min
Cinema's first trip down the rabbit hole.
Collection: Essentially British

The Alien Sky
1956 | 98 min
Colonial chaos on the cusp of Indian Independence in this early TV drama from Paul Scott's novel.
Collection: Before Midnight

All Good Men
1974 | 63 min
The relationship between a labour politician and his Marxist son falters when a television crew visits.
Collection: Play for Today

All in Good Time
1965 | 25 min
Look out for a fresh-faced Richard Briers in Guinness' curious experiment in product placement.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Amelia and the Angel
1958 | 30 min
Ken Russell's magical fantasy about an angel who loses her wings.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Andy the Furniture Maker
1986 | 60 min
An unlikely star of the 1980s art world is given a suitably unconventional profile.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Angela Carter (Off the Page)
1987 | 23 min
The Magic Toyshop author reads from her work and admits that writing 'chose' her - not the other way around.
Collection: The Book Group

Angela Carter's Curious Room
1992 | 50 min
Omnibus profile, poignantly filmed shortly before the author's death.
Collection: The Book Group

The Angelic Conversation
1985 | 81 min
Derek Jarman's queer reading of 14 Shakespeare sonnets addressed to a young man, narrated by Judi Dench.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Angels are so Few
1970 | 65 min
A potentially malevolent angel visits suburbia in Dennis Potter's sinister drama.
Collection: Play for Today

Annual Inspection of the Bodyguard by His Excellency the Lord Lytton
1925 | 5 min
Lord Lytton and family - on and off duty.
Collection: Before Midnight

Another Case of Poisoning
1949 | 14 min
Coughs and sneezes spread diseases - some sanitary warnings to the wise...
Collection: Pandora's Box

Another Country
1984 | 88 min
The fictionalised schooldays of future Cambridge spy Guy Burgess.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Another Sky
1955 | 83 min
A young Englishwoman travels to Morocco and falls in love with a street musician.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Another World by Sean Connery
1962 | 5 min
A slightly awkward Sean Connery makes an appeal on behalf of the RNIB.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Any Evening After Work
1930 | 22 min
The British Social Hygiene Council comes to the rescue of a young man who catches something nasty.
Collection: The Joy of Sex Education

Any Man's Kingdom
1956 | 22 min
The lure of Northumberland as portrayed by British Transport Films.
Collection: Reality Bites

The Apprentices
1988 | 25 mins
Two young apprentices based in Derby learn the basics of driving a train.
Collection: Heartlands

Aquatic Frolics
1926 | 1 mins
Bathing beauties in Blackpool.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Architecture or Revolution
1966 | 30 mins
Televised student debate on the future of architecture.
Collection: The Promised Land

Are You Being Served?
1973 | 30 mins
Mr Humphries: dreadful stereotype or national hero?
Collection: Beautiful Things

Arrival of Mah H.R.H. Jind
1911 | 1 mins
Royalty arrives by train.
Collection: Before Midnight

Arrival of the Earl of Lytton at Calcutta
1922 | 7 mins
Lord Lytton comes to take up the post of Governor of Bengal.
Collection: Before Midnight

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
1940 | 84 mins
When a death occurs during a charity football match, Scotland Yard are called in.
Collection: London Calling

Aspects of Kirkwall: Some Changes
1981 | 20 mins
Margaret Tait's portrait of her hometown in the Orkneys.
Collection: British Islands

At Home With Larry Grayson
1983 | 25 mins
Janet Street-Porter presents a not-quite-intimate portrait of the entertainer as he celebrates his 60th birthday.
Collection: Beautiful Things

The Attendant
1993 | 8 mins
A museum attandant indulges his sado-masochistic fantasies.
Collection: Beautiful Things

ATV Today: Brian Clough
1968 | 4 mins
A brief insight into the early management days of a football legend.
Collection: Heartlands

ATV Today: Derby Clocks
1968 | 8 mins
How do Smith of Derby keep their clocks ticking on time?
Collection: Heartlands

ATV Today: The Lost Villages of Derwent and Ashopton
1966 | 10 mins
Gwyn Richards reports on the history of two Derbyshire villages flooded for the Ladybower Reservoir in the 1940s.
Collection: Heartlands

ATV Today: Women in Love
1968 | 11 mins
On location during the filming of Ken Russell's Women in Love.
Collection: Heartlands

Audrey Hepburn Test
1952 | 5 mins
Early silent colour footage of the future Holly Golightly.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Ave You Got a Male Assistant Please Miss?
1973 | 5 mins
Students have sex.
Collection: The Joy of Sex Education

B.D. Women
1994 | 20 mins
The hidden histories of black lesbians.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Baby Blues
1973 | 75 mins
A mother's feelings towards her newborn baby begin to turn dangerous.
Collection: Play for Today

Babylon
1980 | 95 mins
Brinsley Forde stars as a young rapper in one of the first British features to explore black youth culture.
Collection: Black Britain

Baby's Toilet
1905 | 3 mins
Nothing to do with potties... Baby gets a good wash.
Collection: Reality Bites

Badger
1989 | 25 mins
The cruelty of badger-baiting threatens to ruin a girl's birthday.
Collection: Heartlands

Bar Mitzvah Boy
1976 | 75 mins
Much-loved bittersweet Jewish family comedy from Jack Rosenthal.
Collection: Play for Today

The Battle of Kinder Scout
1970 | 20 mins
The history of the famous mass trespass in the Peak District.
Collection: Heartlands

Battling Bruisers: Some Boxing Buffoonery
1925 | mins
Effeminate fisticuffs from the French in this boxing-themed send-up of foreign stereotypes.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Beautiful Thing
1996 | 87 mins
Two teenage boys fall in love in South East London to the songs of the Mamas and the Papas.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Bed Among the Lentils, A (Talking Heads) (tx03/05/1988)
1988 | 30 mins
Can a fling with an Indian grocer rescue a vicar's wife from fetes and flower-arranging?
Collection: Essentially British

The Belles of St. Trinians
1954 | 91 mins
Ronald Searle's devils-in-gymslips receive their first big screen outing.
Collection: Essentially British

Bermondsey
1972 | 35 mins
'Brokeback Mountain' in a pub in South East LondonÖ
Collection: Beautiful Things

The Best of British Fashion
1978 | 52 mins
Highlights from the 1979 Spring collections, with leisurewear a-plenty.
Collection: Brit Chic

Betcher
1971 | 13 mins
A very young Keith Chegwin shows off his cycling prowess.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Beyond Image
1969 | 17 mins
Psychedelia without the illegal drugs.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Les Bicyclettes de Belsize
1968 | 29 mins
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Hampstead-style.
Collection: London Calling

The Big Meeting
1963 | 24 mins
The Durham Miners' Gala - one of the world’s largest annual gatherings of miners and their families.
Collection: Reality Bites

Bikaner - Secrets of India
1934 | 8 min
A portrait of the city in Rajasthan.
Collection: Before Midnight

Billy Merson singing 'Desdemona'
1927 | 3 mins
The great music hall performer sings, dances and skips with a lyre.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Birth of a Dress
1954 | 12 mins
Mass-production offers a taste of couture to the commoners.
Collection: Brit Chic

Birthday Procession of a Maharajah
1904 | 1 mins
Royalty on elephantback.
Collection: Before Midnight

A Bit of Scarlet
1996 | 75 mins
A history of British gay cinema, described as 'a kind of post-modern queer soap opera for Britain in the nineties'.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Black Christmas
1977 | 50 mins
As Christmas approaches, Gertrude gathers her family around her. But the perfect Christmas Day that she dreams of seems destined to turn to disaster.
Collection: Black Britain

Black on Black
1982 | 52 mins
Channel 4's pioneering magazine show made for Britain's black communities.
Collection: Black Britain

Black Peoples of the Americas
1997 | 20 mins
A young Briton explores the history of the British slave trade and its aftermath in his search for his roots.
Collection: Exodus: Remembering Slavery

The Black Stuff
1980 | 110 mins
A first outing for Yosser Hughes and co in Alan Bleasdale's 'Boys From...' forerunner.
Collection: Play for Today

Blackfriars Bridge
1896 | 1 mins
Top-hatted Victorians and horse-drawn traffic cross Blackfriars Bridge.
Collection: London Calling

Blackmail (sound version)
1929 | 82 mins
Manslaughter, blackmail and an epic chase through the British Museum. Sound and silent versions of the early Hitchcock classic.
Collection: London Calling

Blackmail Test Take
1929 | 1 mins
Hitchcock gets dirty with his leading lady.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Blasphemy at the Old Bailey
1977 | 75 mins
Gay News vs. Mary Whitehouse - one of the most controversial trials of modern times.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Blight
1997 | 30 mins
An East End community voices its anger as homes are demolished to make way for the M11 road link.
Collection: London Calling

Blooming Youth
1973 | 75 mins
Student love, life and squalor at a London 'poly'.
Collection: Play for Today

Blue Black Permanent
1992 | 84 mins
A woman (Celia Imrie) reflects on memories of her Orcadian poet mother.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

The Blue Lamp
1949 | 84 mins
Police drama that spawned the hugely successful series Dixon of Dock Green.
Collection: London Calling

Blue Peter Countryside Special
1985 | 30 mins
'Blue Peter' takes to the countryside - a year on a farm in the Peak District of Derbyshire.
Collection: Heartlands

Blue Remembered Hills
1979 | 75 mins
Helen Mirren dons ankle socks in Dennis Potter's tragic evocation of childhood.
Collection: Play for Today

The Body Beautiful
1990 | 23 mins
Ngozi Onwurah's powerful and poetic portrait of her relationship with her mother.
Collection: Black Britain

The Body Show
1982 | 30 mins
Legwarmers at the ready for Yvonne Ocampo's exercise regime.
Collection: Channel 4 Anniversary

Book Four
1982 | 30 mins
Fay Weldon and Len Deighton lock horns in Channel 4's first book programme.
Collection: Channel 4 Anniversary

Borderline
2005 | 4 mins
London as seen through the eyes of Escher.
Collection: London Calling

Bow Bells
1955 | 14 mins
A nostalgic traipse through the East End accompanied by music-hall numbers.
Collection: London Calling

Boy and Bicycle
1965 | 25 mins
Ridley Scott's directorial debut: a day in the life of a schoolboy truant.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

Boy Who Turned Yellow, The
1972 | 55 mins
The London Underground turns yellow in Michael Powell's charming Children's Film Foundation entry.
Collection: London Calling

Boyfriends
1996 | 81 mins
Seven men spend a weekend in the country - gay sex, love and relationships in the 1990s.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Boys
2000 | 25 mins
Sex and 16 year old boys.
Collection: The Joy of Sex Education

Bradford Coronation Procession
1902 | 2 mins
A procession celebrating the coronation of King Edward VII.
Collection: Essentially British

Breakfast with Frost
1998 | 64 mins
News, politics and historic interviews - all over breakfast.
Collection: Frost/Mediatheque

Breeze Anstey
1972 | 60 mins
A rural romance from H.E. Bates.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Brief City
1952 | 19 mins
How the Festival of Britain transformed the South Bank into a post-war wonderland.
Collection: London Calling

Brief Encounter
1945 | 86 mins
Repressed emotions, steam trains and a fateful bit of grit in the eye.
Collection: Essentially British

Brimstone and Treacle
1976 | 75 mins
Satan pays a visit in this long-banned Dennis Potter play.
Collection: Play for Today

British Fashion Awards 1989
1989 | 52 mins
Princess Diana dishes out the first ever British Fashion Awards.
Collection: Brit Chic

The British in India
1998 | 47 mins
Precicely what was and is Britain's legacy in India?
Collection: Before Midnight

British India - Voices from an Imperial Past
1981 | 90 mins
British accounts of life during the Raj.
Collection: Before Midnight

The British Policeman
1959 | 17 mins
A day in the life of a British Bobby in Leicester.
Collection: Heartlands

Broken Blossoms
1919 | 107 mins
London's Limehouse Chinatown recreated in Hollywood.
Collection: London Calling

Bronco Bullfrog
1969 | 86 mins
Youth culture in not-so-swinging Stratford.
Collection: London Calling

The Brontë Business
1977 | 30 mins
Joan Bakewell joins Brontë Country's lucrative tourist trail.
Collection: The Book Group

The Brontë Connection
1979 | 30 mins
Who were the real-life figures behind Heathcliff and Co?
Collection: The Book Group

The Brontës Lived Here
1973 | 15 mins
Margaret Drabble examines the role of childhood games in the literary legacy of the Brontës.
Collection: The Book Group

Brookside
1982 | 30 mins
The first ever episode of Channel 4's long-running soap, starring The Royle Family's Ricky Tomlinson and Sue Johnston.
Collection: Channel 4 Anniversary

The Buddha of Suburbia
1993 | 60 mins
Gay sex, mysticism and family strife: revisit this four-part TV adaptation of Kureishi's debut novel.
Collection: The Book Group

Bullet Boy
2004 | 100 mins
A young black man struggles to avoid a life of crime after being released from jail.
Collection: London Calling

The Burning
1967 | 30 mins
Early short film from Stephen Frears set in apartheid South Africa.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

Burning an Illusion
1981 | 101 mins
Pioneering black British feature in which a woman begins to question her attitude to life, love and marriage.
Collection: Black Britain

Buxton Skyline
1901 | 2 mins
Mitchell & Kenyon's panorama of the Derbyshire town at the end of the Victorian era.
Collection: Heartlands

Buxton Well Dressing
1904 | 7 mins
Early film footage of the Derbyshire ceremonies giving thanks for fresh water.
Collection: Heartlands

By Leafy Ways - A Garden Memorabilia
1971 | 4 mins
Ivor Abraham's poignant portfolio of photographic stills and illustrations, taking the viewer into the world of suburban gardening.
Collection: British Islands

By the Fireside
1945 | 2 mins
An idyllic fireside scene slips seamlessly into an advert for Maypole Tea.
Collection: Housewives' Choice

Byker Wall
1988 | 10 mins
Beatrix Campbell explores a 20th century 'walled city'.
Collection: The Promised Land

C O D - A Mellow Drama
1929 | 10 mins
Mischievous experimental short made by moonlighting film studio technicians.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Calcutta Topical No.1
1925 | 6 mins
Fashionably attired folk attend the races.
Collection: Before Midnight

Calling Blighty
1944 | 10 mins
Armed forces personnel from Leicestershire send messages home to their loved ones from India.
Collection: Heartlands

Came Out, It Rained, Went Back in Again
1991 | 10 mins
A girl comes out and treks to London. But will the Big Smoke offer her the lesbian bliss she seeks?
Collection: Beautiful Things

A Canterbury Tale
1944 | 125 mins
Magical and unsetting evocation of rural Britain as seen through the eyes of WWII's modern pilgrims.
Collection: Essentially British

Captain Busby
1967 | 15 mins
Quentin Crisp's acting debut - in a bizarre film that includes some entertainingly surreal interplay with a carrot at a railway station.
Collection: Pandora's Box

The Captain Zip Video Trip
1978 | 74 mins
Amateur films of the punk scene in London, 1978-81.
Collection: Anarchy in the UK

Caravaggio
1986 | 89 mins
Derek Jarman's portrait of the Renaissance painter.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

Carnaby Street Fashions
1968 | 4 mins
Join the hipsters (and Sophia Loren) at the epicentre of Swinging London.
Collection: Brit Chic

Carry On Camping
1969 | 88 mins
The Carry On team go camping - in all senses of the word.
Collection: Essentially British

Carry On Constable
1960 | 86 mins
Williams, Hawtrey and co. dole out the Carry On treatment to Dixon of Dock Green.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Cavalcade of Variety
1941 | 59 mins
Ventriloquism, tap dancing and drag acts a go-go. That's variety!
Collection: Pandora's Box

Central Figure
1978 | 5 mins
Martin Hearne's camera explores the relationship between human movement and the environment.
Collection: British Islands

Chance Encounter
1978 | 17 mins
David Lean discusses his involvement with the Indian charity, Raphael.
Collection: Raphael

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
1974 | 90 mins
A radical history of Scotland in 90 minutes.
Collection: Play for Today

Chief Guide at Hyderabad Rally
1937 | 3 mins
Girl guides on parade.
Collection: Before Midnight

Children of the Jungle
1939 | 17 mins
Documentary about the Bhil tribal people of central India.
Collection: Before Midnight

Christmas and New Years Announcements Compilation aka Merry Christmas 1949
1946 | 8 mins
Snowy idylls, animated toys and an exploding Father Time - a selection of trailers shown in cinemas from 1946-1950.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Christmas at Work in the Open
1920 | 1 mins
Children make their own Christmas decorations at the Great Northern Hospital.
Collection: Pandora's Box

A Christmas Carol
1977 | 60 mins
Bah, humbug! Michael Hordern stars as Scrooge in this BBC adaptation of Dickens' Christmas classic.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Christmas Greetings Trailers 1937 and 1938
1937 | 5 mins
Star-studded cinema trailers wish the audience a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Christmas is Coming
1951 | 2 mins
Post early for Christmas! Santa threatens to strike in Lotte Reiniger's animation.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Christmas Merry
2005 | 3 mins
Julia and Jim are dreaming of a white Christmas.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Christmas Message From Mr Oscar Deutsch
1939 | 4 mins
The founder of Odeon cinemas makes an appeal for the War Comforts Fund.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Christmas Under Fire
1941 | 10 mins
This year Christmas trees are cut short to fit in the shelters. Propaganda of the most moving kind.
Collection: Essentially British

Cinghalese Dances
1910 | 3 mins
Snapshots of life in Ceylon.
Collection: Before Midnight

The Citadel
1992 | 14 mins
National and world events are imagined by a woman gazing across London.
Collection: London Calling

Clarmont Skrine's Home Movies
1940 | 13 mins
Vivid colour home movies featuring the great Kathakali dancer Guru Gopinath and scenes in Bundi, Rajasthan.
Collection: Before Midnight

Climbing Mount Everest
1933 | 32 mins
Hugh Ruttledge's attempt to conquer Everest via Tibet.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

Climbing Mt Everest
1922 | 73 mins
The second British Everest expedition, led by Brigadier General C.G. Bruce.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

The Clothes Show
1986 | 30 mins
Shoulder pads at the ready: Selina Scott and Jeff Banks present the first episode of the long-running fashion show.
Collection: Brit Chic

Collecting Postcards
1909 | 4 mins
Adulterers, take warning: never admit. Or go into postcard shops...
Collection: Pandora's Box

The Colony
1964 | 60 mins
From the Caribbean to Birmingham - immigrants tell of their experiences.
Collection: Essentially British

Colour on the Thames
1935 | 8 mins
A rare glimpse of 1930s London in colour. The Thames has never looked lovelier.
Collection: London Calling

Comedians
1979 | 95 mins
A young Jonathan Pryce stars in an angry attack on the popular comedy scene, as six budding comedians hope for their big break.
Collection: Play for Today

Comic Strip Presents…Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982 | 30 mins
The Famous Five receive the Comic Strip treatment.
Collection: Channel 4 Anniversary

Coming Out
1979 | 75 mins
A closeted gay author causes a stir after writing an anonymous gay article - is it time to come out?
Collection: Beautiful Things

Coming Through
1985 | 80 mins
Kenenth Branagh and Helen Mirren star in the romance between D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Weekly.
Collection: Heartlands

Commissioner Higgins Visits Ahmedabad Girls School
1904 | 2 mins
A visit from the Salvation Army.
Collection: Before Midnight

Completing the Vision?
1989 | 38 mins
South Bank arts folk debate 1989's ill-fated plans for a major regeneration of the complex.
Collection: Building the South Bank

The Concrete Garden
1994 | 23 mins
11-year-old Marcia leaves Jamaica to join her parents in the bleak, racist London of the 1950s.
Collection: Black Britain

Condition of Illusion
1975 | 31 mins
Structuralist film examining illusions of continuity and senses of linear time.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

Connie
1979 | 55 mins
Connie has an eye for the other women in the factory.
Collection: Beautiful Things

The Connoisseur
1966 | 75 mins
Clandestine gay relationships cause tension at a boys' public school.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Continental Drift
2005 | 16 mins
William Raban's film of Dover harbour shows how Britain is defined by its complex relationship with Europe.
Collection: British Islands

Contrasts: Joseph Wright of Derby - The Spectacle of Light
1990 | 25 mins
Profile of the Derby-born artist Joseph Wright (1734 - 1797).
Collection: Heartlands

Coping with Cupid
1991 | 18 mins
A trio of platinum blonde aliens lands in Soho to investigate our romantic foibles.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Coronation Durbar at Delhi
1903 | 2 mins
Pomp and circumstance marking the coronation of King Edward VII as Emperor of India.
Collection: Before Midnight

Coronation Street
1965 | 25 mins
Ena Sharples vs. Elsie Tanner in the great Mancunian soap.
Collection: Essentially British

Corridor Third
1949 | 42 mins
Detailed account of the design and construction of a Derby railway carriage.
Collection: Heartlands

Cosmopolitan London (Wonderful London)
1924 | 13 mins
Discover a 'hidden' London of the 1920s.
Collection: London Calling

A Cottage on Dartmoor
1929 | 87 mins
A love triangle has terrifying consequences in Anthony Asquith's dark masterpiece.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Count Dracula
1977 | 150 mins
Be seduced by Louis Jourdan as Stoker's suave Count in the BBC's 1970s epic.
Collection: The Book Group

Countdown
1982 | 25 mins
The long-running gameshow cuts its teeth. Will this week's Countdown Conundrum be crucial?
Collection: Channel 4 Anniversary

Country Town
1945 | 15 mins
Life and industry in a Lincolnshire town.
Collection: Heartlands

The Countrywomen
1941 | 14 mins
Jam and Jerusalem - the Women's Institute goes to war.
Collection: Essentially British

Coves and Caves
1920 | 12 mins
Magical travelogue of Cornwall from the director of The Open Road.
Collection: Essentially British

The Crane
1992 | 15 mins
And introducing... Jude Law!
Collection: Pandora's Box

Crewe Hospital Procession
1900 | 11 mins
Blackface performers, cross-dressers and dancing bears in Crewe.
Collection: Out of the Archive

Cricket
1951 | 18 mins
The sweet sound of leather on willow.
Collection: Essentially British

Cries From the Watchtower
1979 | 75 mins
Can a Nottingham watchmaker survive the Silicon Revolution?
Collection: Heartlands

The Crippendales
2007 | 30 mins
A group of strippers make their Brighton debut.
Collection: Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

Crossing the Great Sagrada
1924 | 15 mins
Three intrepid explorers embark on a journey to Sagrada in this humorous spoof travelogue.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Crown Derby
1949 | 42 mins
Warm, genial, and thoroughly English - The story of Royal Crown Derby Bone China.
Collection: Heartlands

Crystal Gazing
1982 | 86 min
Experimental drama set in London during the Thatcher administration.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

Cubs
2006 | 10 min
A very cunning twist on a very British sport.
Collection: Essentially British

Culloden
1964 | 70 min
Mock-documentary of the 1746 Battle of Culloden seen from the perspective of a TV crew.
Collection: Essentially British

Cumbernauld, Town for Tomorrow
1970 | 8 mins
Colourful 1970s promo for the postwar Scottish 'utopia' and its infamous town centre.
Collection: The Promised Land

Cut it Out: A Day in the Life of a Censor
1925 | 20 mins
A very annoying film censor attempts to disrupt a film shoot.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Cuttack Leper Asylum
1930 | 5 mins
Amateur film featuring scenes at the leper colony.
Collection: Before Midnight

Cutting Up Rough: Alexander McQueen
1997 | 30 mins
An unlikely new British fashion genius is born...
Collection: Brit Chic

Cycling the Channel
1929 | 1 mins
Dover to Calais by hydrocycle.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Dad's Army
1970 | 29 mins
Britain's 'last line of defence' at their best.
Collection: Essentially British

Daisy Doodad’s Dial
1914 | 6 mins
A face-pulling competition between husband and wife - can Daisy pull it off?
Collection: Pandora's Box

Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
1966 | 84 mins
Exterminate! Can Dr. Who and Bernard Cribbins save the Earth?
Collection: Box of Delights

Dam Busters, The
1955 | 124 mins
Classic yarn featuring stiff upper lips, an immortal score and the bouncing bomb.
Collection: Heartlands

Dance Lexie Dance
1996 | 15 mins
Billy Elliot meets Riverdance.
Collection: Essentially British

Daphne du Maurier - A Loving Spirit
1997 | 60 mins
Documentary marking the launch of the du Maurier Festival in Fowey, Cornwall.
Collection: The Book Group

Daphne du Maurier – The Loving Spirit
1993 | 52 mins
Documentary shedding light on the author's complex relationships with men and women.
Collection: The Book Group

Darling, Do You Love Me?
1968 | 4 mins
Germaine Greer gets amorous.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Date With Decimals, A
1970 | 15 mins
Discover how Tesco employees got to grips with new money on the eve of decimalisation.
Collection: Pandora's Box

The Dating Game
1994 | 15 mins
Three disabled women talk about the difficulties they have encountered when trying to form relationships.
Collection: Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

Daventry Calling
1925 | 2 mins
The 'world's greatest broadcasting station' makes its debut on the airwaves.
Collection: Heartlands

A Day in the Hayfields
1904 | 3 mins
Extraordinary early portrait of people caught up in the remorseless round of industrial production.
Collection: Essentially British

A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner
1910 | 10 mins
Extraordinary early portrait of people caught up in the remorseless round of industrial production.
Collection: Essentially British

A Day of One's Own
1956 | 20 mins
At last, Mum gets a well-earned break from cooking, cleaning and kids.
Collection: Housewives' Choice

The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961 | 99 mins
The Thames has dried up. Climate change threatens the survival of the world in this smart, prophetic sci-fi thriller.
Collection: London Calling

Dead Man's Shoes
2004 | 90 mins
Rural Derbyshire has never seemed quite as unsettling as in Shane Meadows' masterly revenge thriller.
Collection: Heartlands

Dear Murderer
1947 | 94 mins
Eric Portman at his sinister best as a jealous husband in this pitch-black post-war thriller.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Dear Phone
1976 | 17 mins
Cast your minds back to the time before the mobile phone... Peter Greenaway on the bright red phone box.
Collection: Essentially British

Death in the Morning
1964 | 50 mins
Alan Whicker investigates the elite world of the Leicestershire Quorn Hunt.
Collection: Heartlands

Death May Be Your Santa Claus
1969 | 38 mins
Thought 'lost' for many years, 'Santa Claus' is an intriguing look at sex and politics from a black British perspective.
Collection: Black Britain

Delhi
1946 | 10 mins
Amateur 8mm film shot in the Indian capital.
Collection: Before Midnight

Delhi
1938 | 10 mins
Delhi as city of the future.
Collection: Before Midnight

To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly
1909 | 1 mins
A mechanical spider takes to the air.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Denys Lasdun
1971 | 26 mins
The pioneering architect discusses his vision for the new National Theatre.
Collection: Building the South Bank

Derby Charter Celebrations
1954 | 60 mins
Glorious colour footage of the 800th anniversary of the Derby charter.
Collection: Heartlands

Derby Youth
1947 | 28 mins
The activities of Derby youth clubs in the 40s.
Collection: Heartlands

Design for Fashion
1954 | 24 mins
The creation of a 50s couture dress in Giuseppe Mattli's London atelier.
Collection: Brit Chic

Desmond's
1989 | 24 mins
The lives of Peckham barber shop proprietor Desmond Ambrose, his wife Sheila, three children and assorted locals and regulars.
Collection: Black Britain

A Desperate Case
1958 | 10 mins
How not to pack your suitcase - a guide from British Transport Films.
Collection: Pandora's Box

The Development of the English Town
1942 | 17 mins
Quirky educational film promoting the importance of intelligent town planning.
Collection: The Promised Land

Devonshire Hospital, Buxton
1916 | 2 mins
Returning WWI soldiers get more than they bargained for in Buxton's new-fangled thermal baths.
Collection: Heartlands

The Diaries of Ossie Clark
1998 | 52 mins
A tribute to the influential designer, filmed two years after his violent death.
Collection: Brit Chic

A Diary For Timothy
1946 | 38 mins
What does the future hold for Timothy, born on the fifth anniversary of the start of WWII?
Collection: Essentially British

Dick Henderson Singing 'Love Her All the More'
1926 | 5 mins
Music hall star Dick Henderson trills out a resounding ode to his beloved.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Dirty Filthy Love
2004 | 120 mins
A man with OCD and Tourette's Syndrome strikes up a rapport with the head of his support group.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Disablement
1977 | 26 mins
A married couple discuss the challenges they face in achieving a healthy sex life after an accident leaves the man in a wheelchair.
Collection: Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988 | 84 mins
A wedding and a christening evoke powerful memories for a working-class Liverpool family.
Collection: Essentially British

Do I Love You?
2002 | 72 mins
A London lesbian examines her life as her relationship crumbles - just why does she 'prefer taco to salami?'
Collection: Beautiful Things

Dog Years
2005 | 4 mins
Ben, 39, castrated mongrel, needs love. GSOH essential.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Don't Be Like Brenda!
1973 | 10 mins
Brenda makes a mistake and it's clearly all her own fault...
Collection: The Joy of Sex Education

Double Dare
1976 | 65 mins
Self-reflexive and surreal Dennis Potter play; the identities of a writer, an actress, a callgirl and her client overlap.
Collection: Play for Today

Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun
1992 | 24 mins
A mix of documentary and drama exploring the lives of lesbians and gay men with disabilities.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Down Town
1965 | 9 mins
Perfect precincts: Britain goes shopping centre crazy.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Dracula
1958 | 82 mins
Lee and Cushing battle it out in Hammer's landmark adaptation, newly restored by the BFI.
Collection: The Book Group

Dracula
2006 | 90 mins
A blood-curdling Christmas special and the most recent TV reworking of Stoker's novel.
Collection: The Book Group

Dracula (Mystery & Imagination)
1968 | 80 mins
Denholm Elliott stars in this effective small screen adaptation from 1968.
Collection: The Book Group

Dracula (Nightmare: The Birth of Horror)
1996 | 50 mins
Christopher Frayling examines the many sources that inspired Stoker to pen his immortal novel.
Collection: The Book Group

Dracula (South Bank Show)
1993 | 50 mins
Melvyn Bragg profiles Bram Stoker and explores the legacy of his most famous work.
Collection: The Book Group

The Draughtsman's Contract
1982 | 104 mins
Peter Greenaway's breakthrough film: a draughtsman enters into a dangerous game of wits.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

Dream House
1953 | 3 mins
Meena Kumari and Ashok Kumar extol the virtues of Dunlopillo.
Collection: Pandora's Box

The Dream of Gerontius (Part II)
1979 | 60 mins
TV coverage of the performance of the second part of Elgar's choral work, by The Hallé Orchestra at Huddersfield Town Hall.
Collection: Hope and Glory

Dreams of Leaving
1980 | 60 mins
A young Bill Nighy stars as a disillusioned journalist in Swinging London.
Collection: Play for Today

Drifters
1929 | 60 mins
The story of the North Sea herring fisheries, filmed at Derwick, in the Shetlands, Lowestoft and Yarmouth.
Collection: Reality Bites

Drinking for England
1998 | 50 mins
A national pastime exposed - Britain's turbulent relationship with the bottle.
Collection: Reality Bites

Drum, The
1937 | 104 mins
Controversial flagwaver starring Sabu as a young prince loyal to the Raj.
Collection: Before Midnight

Dry Hands
1964 | 8 mins
The (lack of) thrills and spills in a self-service laundrette.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

Duke of Connaught’s Indian Tour
1921 | 3 mins
The Duke goes hunting.
Collection: Before Midnight

E. H. Hunt's Amateur Films of the Rafai Fakirs
1929 | 8 mins
An amateur record of the self-mutilation of fakirs in Hyderabad.
Collection: Before Midnight

East is East
1917 | 70 mins
A Cockney girl unexpectedly inherits a fortune, but will she forget about her old East End sweetheart?
Collection: London Calling

EastEnders
1987 | 30 mins
Dot and Ethel reminisce about good times and bad.
Collection: London Calling

EastEnders [Tavernier Family arrival]
1990 | 30 mins
The Tavernier family moves into Albert Square.
Collection: Black Britain

Eating High
1966 | 10 mins
Cordon bleu at the top of the Post Office (BT) Tower.
Collection: London Calling

Echoes of the Raj
2000 | 50 mins
Personal testimonies and home movies tell the story of the last years of the Raj.
Collection: Before Midnight

Edna, The Inebriate Woman
1971 | 90 mins
A BAFTA-winning Patricia Hayes stars as a homeless drunk.
Collection: Play for Today

Edward II
1971 | 125 mins
Ian McKellen stars in Marlowe's masterpiece.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Eleanor
1974 | 65 mins
'Birds of a Feather'’s Pauline Quirke stars as a misfit at a girls' day school.
Collection: Play for Today

The Elephant Boy
1937 | 84 mins
Sabu makes his debut in this adventure, based on a story by Rudyard Kipling.
Collection: Before Midnight

The Elephant Man
1980 | 124 mins
Poignant, humanist true-life tale of the man who was displayed as a freak in Victorian London.
Collection: London Calling

The Elephant Will Never Forget
1953 | 10 mins
A fond and tearful farewell to London's trams.
Collection: London Calling

Elgar
1962 | 55 mins
Ken Russell's rhapsodic docu-drama about the great British composer.
Collection: Essentially British

Elgar and Shaw - 1929-32
1932 | 12 mins
Home movie footage of Elgar, literary and musical friends and, of course, his dogs.
Collection: Hope and Glory

Elgar's Tenth Muse
1996 | 50 mins
Drama about the ageing Elgar's brief but intoxicating relationship with a young violinist.
Collection: Hope and Glory

Elmina's Kitchen
2004 | 90 mins
Kwame Kwei-Armah's Hackney-set story of gun crime, racism and a difficult father-son relationship.
Collection: Black Britain

Elphida
1987 | 60 mins
Angela Wynter stars as a young woman who needs to make major changes in her life.
Collection: Black Britain

Emily Brontë at Howarth – A Personal Impression
1973 | 25 mins
Beryl Bainbridge reflects on the triumphs and tragedies which shaped the novelist's short life.
Collection: The Book Group

The Empire Pays Back
2005 | 50 mins
A heated criticism of the British government's involvement in the slave trade, that argues that African and Afro-Caribbean communities should be compensated.
Collection: Exodus: Remembering Slavery

Empire Road
1978 | 28 mins
Day-to-day life among the West Indian community living in Birmingham's Empire Road.
Collection: Black Britain

The Encyclopaedist
1961 | 30 mins
A pushy encyclopaedia salesman attempts to flog his wares in this TV drama written by John Mortimer.
Collection: Black Britain

Enginemen
1959 | 21 mins
Manchester railway workers discuss the end of the steam age.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

England Home and Beauty
1976 | 37 mins
Whimsical evocation of our 1930s design heyday.
Collection: The Promised Land

England Their England: Debauchery
1980 | 75 mins
Rock climbing at Matlock Bath in Derbyshire via the notoriously tricky Debauchery route.
Collection: Heartlands

England Their England: Ilkeston Advertiser
1980 | 25 mins
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The daily grind in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, as seen through the local newspaper.
Collection: Heartlands

England Their England: Sky High
1983 | 25 mins
Hatton School in Derbyshire express their views about an imminent open cast mine - through the language of song!
Collection: Heartlands

An Englishman's Home…
1946 | 2 mins
A salute to the calming influence of Horlicks.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Entertaining Mr Sloane
1968 | 80 mins
A sexy young murderer joins the household of a spinster and her brother - but who is manipulating whom?
Collection: Beautiful Things

Epic of Everest
1924 | 92 mins
Mallory and Irvine's ill-fated attempt to conquer Everest.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

Erection of the Dome of Discovery, Festival of Britain, 1950/51
1951 | 48 mins
The Festival of Britain's radical centrepiece rises from the rubble of the South Bank.
Collection: Building the South Bank

Eton Wall Game
1921 | 1 mins
A young George Orwell takes part in an Eton institution - the notoriously perplexing Wall Game.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Everest
1933 | 16 mins
Wildlife is at the fore in this film of Hugh Ruttledge's Everest expedition.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

Everest Expedition 1938
1938 | 59 mins
Vivid 8mm home movie record of an (unsuccessful) attempt to tame the famous peak.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

Every Day Except Christmas
1957 | 40 mins
12 hours in the life of Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market.
Collection: London Calling

Everyday Something
2001 | 14 mins
A Home Truths-style guide to British eccentricity narrated by John Peel.
Collection: Essentially British

Expresso Bongo
1960 | 111 mins
Cliff Richard gyrates his way through Soho's strip clubs and coffee bars.
Collection: London Calling

Extraordinary (Zandra Rhodes)
1980 | 30 mins
All aboard the Extraordinary Express! Meet Zandra "with a zed".
Collection: Brit Chic

The F***ing Fulfords
2004 | 60 mins
Political incorrectness gone mad in a dilapidated Devon mansion.
Collection: Essentially British

Fable
1965 | 75 mins
Controversial and provocative TV drama imagining Britain under black rule.
Collection: Black Britain

The Face of Britain
1935 | 18 mins
How industrialisation has shaped and changed our landscape.
Collection: Essentially British

Factory (Schweppes Tonic Water ad with Benny Hill)
1959 | 1 mins
Benny Hill does his bit for the tonic water industry.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Facts and Fancies
1951 | 17 mins
Joan Collins gets to grips with the by-products of coal in her first screen appearance.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Fair City of Udaipur - The Secrets of India
1934 | 9 mins
A tourist's-eye view of 'the Venice of the East'.
Collection: Before Midnight

Fairy of the Phone
1936 | 12 mins
A delirious ode to page 5 of the telephone directory, conducted by the fairy of the phone.
Collection: Pandora's Box

The Family
1974 | 30 mins
The birth of reality TV?
Collection: Essentially British

The Far Pavilions
1984 | 315 mins
Gone With the Wind, India-style.
Collection: Before Midnight

Fashion Fantasy
1946 | 35 mins
A glamour-starved Wren dreams of modelling for Norman Hartnell.
Collection: Brit Chic

Fat Man on a Bicycle aka W-H-O-R-K a la Pimple
1914 | 3 mins
Pimple attempts to teach a large friend to ride a bicycle, with disastrous results.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Fatty Issues
1990 | 5 mins
A wavering weight-watcher counts the calories.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Festival in London
1951 | 10 mins
Picture-postcard record of the Festival of Britain and its myriad attractions.
Collection: Building the South Bank

Fiddlers All: A Musical Test for Violin Lovers
1941 | 9 mins
Fiddle fans pay attention - can you name that tune?
Collection: Pandora's Box

The Fight Against Slavery
1975 | 300 mins
Major BBC dramatised documentary series about Britain's role in the slave trade.
Collection: Exodus: Remembering Slavery

Figures in a Landscape
1953 | 17 mins
The sculptures of Barbara Hepworth, and the Cornish landscapes that inspired them.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

The Films of E.J. Montgomery
1928 | 26 mins
An often playful record of the lives and duties of Lord and Lady Stephenson.
Collection: Before Midnight

Fingersmith
2005 | 60 mins
In the 1860s, a female pickpocket and an heiress enter into a relationship - but is the whole thing a con?
Collection: Beautiful Things

Finisterre
2003 | 57 mins
Snapshots of contemporary London form a vibrant backdrop to Saint Etienne's 2002 album.
Collection: London Calling

Finnegan's Chin
1981 | 82 mins
James Joyce-inspired exploration of order, logic, cause and effect.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

Fires Were Started
1943 | 63 mins
Spend an eventful day and night with the National Fire Service during the Blitz of 1940-41.
Collection: London Calling

Fireworks Revisited
1994 | 9 mins
A sexy, girlie twist on Kenneth Anger's homoerotic classic, 'Fireworks'.
Collection: Beautiful Things

First a Girl
1935 | 93 mins
A hard-up girl pretends to be a female impersonator to make ends meet.
Collection: Beautiful Things

The First Born
1928 | 93 mins
Desire for a son and heir leads to marital strife between director/star Miles Mander and future 'Hitchcock blonde' Madeleine Carroll.
Collection: Silent Britain

Five Towns
1947 | 26 mins
Life and work in the Staffordshire Potteries.
Collection: Essentially British

Flame in the Streets
1961 | 93 mins
Domestic difficulties develop in a working-class family when their daughter falls in love with a Jamaican man.
Collection: Black Britain

Flames of Passion
1922 | 120 mins
The consequences of lust: an illegitimate child threatens ruin in this lavish 1920s society drama.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Flames of Passion
1989 | 18 mins
Ingenious gay homage to Brief Encounter.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Flight of the Swan
1994 | 12 mins
Can a young black girl hope to become a classical ballerina?
Collection: Black Britain

The Flipside of Dominick Hide
1980 | 95 mins
A time-traveller from 2130 attempts to track down his great-great-grandfather in 1980, but love complicates things…
Collection: Play for Today

Floating
1991 | 39 mins
A man becomes convinced a great flood is coming and sets about building an ark.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

Flying The Foam and Some Fancy Diving
1906 | 2 mins
'Professor' Reddish demonstrates how to dive from Brighton Pier whilst riding a bicycle.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Focus on Northampton
1965 | 25 mins
Brian Connell introduces the town of Northampton.
Collection: Heartlands

Foothill Town, A: Darjeeling
1937 | 9 mins
Darjeeling - a portrait of the Raj hill station made for schools.
Collection: Before Midnight

Forbidden Love
1992 | 26 mins
The older generation of disabled people discuss how theories of eugenics were often used to deny disabled people the opportunity to explore their sexuality.
Collection: Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

Forbidden Pleasures
2000 | 50 mins
Documentary about the use of prostitutes by disabled people.
Collection: Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

The Fourth Everest Expedition
1933 | 49 mins
Hugh Ruttledge's failed attempt to conquer Everest - he got to a point just 1000 feet below the summit.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

Framed Youth: Revenge of the Teenage Perverts
1983 | 50 mins
Queer teens discuss their experiences in Thatcher's Britain.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Freak Out
1999 | 25 mins
Welcome to Club Flesh, a disabled fetish club often frequented by able-bodied men and women.
Collection: Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

Freedom of the Hills
1930 | 1 mins
The hills are alive with the sound of protestors, fighting for the right to roam.
Collection: Heartlands

The Frock and Roll Years
2002 | 23 mins
A beginner's guide to post-war British fashion.
Collection: Brit Chic

From the Four Corners
1941 | 15 mins
Why would Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders risk their lives for Britain?
Collection: Essentially British

The Frost Programme
1970 | 52 mins
Counterculture invades The Frost Programme as Jerry Rubin and the Yippies take over the stage.
Collection: Frost/Mediatheque

The Frost Report on Class
1966 | 25 mins
Classic sketches from Messrs Barker, Corbett, Cleese and Frost.
Collection: Frost/Mediatheque

The Frost Report on Elections
1966 | 25 mins
Satirical send ups of politicians – 'The Daily Show' circa 1966.
Collection: Frost/Mediatheque

The Fruit Machine
1988 | 108 mins
Fantastical gay buddy movie following two boys on the run from Liverpool to Brighton.
Collection: Beautiful Things

The Fugitive Futurist
1924 | 11 mins
An oddball inventor startles Londoners with images of the city's future.
Collection: London Calling

The Funeral of Queen Victoria (Funeral Procession at Cowes)
1901 | 3 mins
The funeral of Britain's longest-reigning monarch.
Collection: Essentially British

Gallivant
1996 | 100 mins
A tour of Britain's coastline, with the director's grandmother and daughter in tow.
Collection: Essentially British

The Games
2007 | 15 mins
A surreal take on East London's Olympian future.
Collection: London Calling

Gangsters
1975 | 110 mins
The French Connection comes to Birmingham.
Collection: Play for Today

Gardens of the Orient
1936 | 10 mins
The gardens here are tea gardens, and the 'Orient' is India and Sri Lanka.
Collection: Before Midnight

Gay Life
1981 | 30 mins
British gay men's lives from the '30s to the '50s.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Gaytime TV
1995 | 35 mins
The gay magazine show cuts its teeth, presented by Rhona Cameron and Bert Tyler-Moore.
Collection: Beautiful Things

General Election
1946 | 19 mins
Can John Profumo hold onto his seat in Kettering?
Collection: Heartlands

General Sahib
1976 | 50 mins
A portrait of Major General Bakhshi, former chairman of the charity Raphael.
Collection: Raphael

Genevieve
1953 | 86 mins
Cheerful, and very British comedy set against the London to Brighton car rally.
Collection: Funny Girls

George Sherriff's Home Movies - Lhasa Films
1940 | 63 mins
These amateur films of Lhasa feature the current Dalai Lama and his family in the 1940s.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

George Sherriff's Home Movies - S.E. Tibet, Bhutan and Sikkim Films
1934 | 155 mins
The vivid colours of Tibet, Bhutan and Sikkim in the 1930s and 40s.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

George Sherriff's Home Movies - Tibetan Landscapes and Ceremonies
1938 | 51 mins
The Tibetan landscape, wildlife and religious ceremonies through the eyes of botanist George Sherriff.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

The Gift
1997 | 16 mins
A man gives his disabled wife a video camera, and she begins to film their deteriorating relationship.
Collection: Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

Ginger Nutt’s Christmas Circus
1949 | 7 mins
Disney-inspired animated mayhem at the circus.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Glimpses of India
1929 | 15 mins
Indian travelogue featuring the famous sights and rural life.
Collection: Before Midnight

Go Go Go Said the Bird
1966 | 55 mins
A trip through Swinging London with Marianne Faithfull, David Hockney, Twiggy and co.
Collection: London Calling

God's Chillun
1938 | 10 mins
The history of the West Indies' slave trade, and the islands' development since emancipation.
Collection: Exodus: Remembering Slavery

Going Shopping with Elizabeth Allan
1955 | 8 mins
Brandy, teabags and 'Tupperware' are all on offer in London's most famous store.
Collection: Pandora's Box

The Good Housewife ‘In Her Kitchen’
1949 | 9 mins
Make a refrigerator out of an old pot and a bit of cloth. Post-War survival for housewives.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Good Manners
1937 | 9 mins
Members of the Roston Youth Club debate the subject of good manners.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Goodbye
1975 | 80 mins
Scenes from a marriage on the rocks.
Collection: Play for Today

Gorrie Family Personal Films
1932 | 80 mins
The Gorrie family at home in Dehra Dun and on expedition in the Himalaya.
Collection: Before Midnight

Granny's Is
1989 | 48 mins
Avant-garde portrait of the director's grandmother.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

The Grassy Shires
1944 | 15 mins
'Pattern of Britain' film exploring the farmlands of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and beyond.
Collection: Heartlands

Great Crusade: The Story of a Million Homes
1936 | 17 mins
Patriotism and production lines: J.B. Priestley joins the 'crusade' for better housing.
Collection: The Promised Land

Great Crusade: The Story of a Million Homes
1936 | 17 mins
Patriotism and production lines: J.B. Priestley joins the crusade for better housing.
Collection: The Promised Land

Great Hucklow Jubilee Film May 5th 1935
1935 | 6 mins
Jubilee celebrations in a Derbyshire village.
Collection: Heartlands

Groove on a Stanley Knife
1997 | 41 mins
Two girls - a lesbian and a homophobe - go on the run from crack-dealers.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Grove Carnival
1981 | 19 mins
Kaleidoscopic celebration of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival.
Collection: London Calling

Growing Girls
1951 | 12 mins
Mary discovers the minefield that is puberty.
Collection: The Joy of Sex Education

Gurkhas and Shillong Scenery
1930 | 13 mins
The festival of Dashian is celebrated - including scenes of animal sacrifice.
Collection: Before Midnight

Halcyon Days
1962 | 13 mins
Brushes at the ready - are you ready to paint the Halcyon way?
Collection: Heartlands

Hanif Kureishi - 'Black and White in Colour' Interviews
1991 | 30 mins
'The Buddha of Suburbia' author offers his opinions on race in British film and TV.
Collection: The Book Group

Hanif Kureishi (Guardian Interview) AUDIO ONLY
1999 | mins
South Bank Show profile of the provocative writer.
Collection: The Book Group

Hanif Kureishi (South Bank Show)
2003 | 48 mins
Kureishi discusses his work at the NFT.
Collection: The Book Group

Happy Family, The
1952 | 86 mins
A plucky South Bank family decide to fight back when building work for the Festival of Britain threatens their home.
Collection: Building the South Bank

Happy in the Morning: A Film Fantasy
1938 | 13 mins
A jolly showcase for Henry Hall's band, doubling up as a water heater commercial.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Hard Labour
1973 | 70 mins
Mike Leigh's first TV drama, starring Liz Smith and Alison Steadman in a Salford-set snapshot of domestic drudgery.
Collection: Play for Today

Health and Clothing
1928 | 15 mins
Clothing tips from Bermondsey Borough Council.
Collection: Reality Bites

The Heart Within
1957 | 59 mins
A West Indian dockworker is suspected of the murder of a compatriot.
Collection: Black Britain

Hedging
1942 | 9 mins
How to cut back and lay a hedge with the aid of a trusty land girl.
Collection: Heartlands

Henry V
1944 | 137 mins
Shakespeare as WWII propaganda.
Collection: Essentially British

Hidden City
1987 | 108 mins
Stephen Poliakoff's unnerving thriller uncovers a dark, unseen side of the capital.
Collection: London Calling

The Higgler
1973 | 52 mins
Derbyshire-set adaptation of A.E. Coppard's story about a higgler town between two women.
Collection: Heartlands

High Living
1968 | 10 mins
The only way is up: the 1960s' answer to Britain's booming population.
Collection: The Promised Land

Hints and Hobbies No.1
1926 | 14 mins
Want to know more about Persian cats, cardboard vases and treating fractured limbs?
Collection: Pandora's Box

Hints and Hobbies No.11
1926 | 14 mins
Jiu-jitsu for ladies, how to get ink off a white apron and other life essentials.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Hints and Hobbies No.12
1926 | 12 mins
Who needs an iron when you have a jam jar to hand?
Collection: Pandora's Box

Hints and Hobbies No.3
1926 | 5 mins
How to construct an efficient wireless set for just 1/10d. Although Mensa membership may be a prerequisite...
Collection: Pandora's Box

Hints and Hobbies No.7
1926 | 14 mins
How to remove dirt from your finest stole and enthral your guests with a few sugarlumps.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Hints and Hobbies No.8
1926 | 12 mins
Turn your dog into a burglar alarm and clean out that murky decanter - the Hints and Hobbies team are back.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Historic Mutiny Sites
1914 | 5 mins
Sixty years after the event, this travelogue indicates the continued potency of the Indian Mutiny to the British in India.
Collection: Before Midnight

History of the English Language
1943 | 15 mins
How did the mother tongue of 400 million people come into existence?
Collection: Pandora's Box

A Hole in Babylon
1979 | 70 mins
Dramatisation of the 1975 Spaghetti House Siege.
Collection: Play for Today

Holiday
1957 | 18 mins
The kiss-me-quick pleasures of saucy Blackpool.
Collection: Essentially British

The Holly and the Ivy
1952 | 83 mins
An unfairly neglected Christmas tale starring Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson.
Collection: Pandora's Box

The Home Movies of H.A.N. Barlow
1945 | 20 mins
Gritty images of India's northerly frontiers contrast with vibrant colour scenes of Udaipur in these 8mm films.
Collection: Before Midnight

Home Movies of T. Burtt
1933 | 20 mins
Lahore, Rajasthan and Simla feature in Burtt's home movies.
Collection: Before Midnight

Homes for All (This Modern Age No.1)
1946 | 20 mins
A plug for the post-war housing policy of a new Labour government.
Collection: The Promised Land

Homes for the People
1945 | 23 mins
Housewives of Britain offer a weary insight into the dire state of their homes.
Collection: The Promised Land

Hope and Glory
1984 | 79 mins
The life, times and music of Sir Edward Elgar.
Collection: Hope and Glory

The Horsey Mail
1938 | 10 mins
Will floods scupper the duties of two Norfolk postmen?
Collection: Essentially British

Hot Summer Night
1959 | 90 mins
Racism in a white, working-class family - later re-made as 'Flame in the Streets'.
Collection: Black Britain

House in Which You Live, The
1947 | 17 mins
Don't mention the War: a reassuring architectural tour of British homes past, present and future.
Collection: The Promised Land

How a Bicycle is Made
1945 | mins
The recipe for the perfect bike.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Hoxton…Saturday, July 3rd, Britannia Theatre
1920 | 6 mins
A very busy Saturday on Old Street.
Collection: London Calling

Hue and Cry
1946 | 82 mins
A group of schoolboys uncover a dastardly scam. When the police won't listen, it's time to take matters into their own hands.
Collection: Box of Delights

Hull Fair No.2
1902 | 2 mins
Two black boxers challenge fair-goers to a bout in the ring.
Collection: Black Britain

Hunter Family Films
1928 | 57 mins
India through the idiosyncratic eyes of the Hunter family.
Collection: Before Midnight

I Know Where I'm Going!
1945 | 92 mins
Metaphysical love story starring Wendy Hiller, beautifully filmed in the Scottish Hebrides.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Ilford Everest
1933 | 32 mins
Members of Ruttledge's Everest expedition at play.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

I'm British But…
1989 | 30 mins
Britain beats to the sound of Bhangra and Bangla.
Collection: Essentially British

The Imitation Game
1980 | 95 mins
A young middle-class woman joins the Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII.
Collection: Play for Today

In Celebration
1974 | 125 mins
Three brothers return to Nottinghamshire to celebrate their parents' anniversary. Lindsay Anderson directs.
Collection: Heartlands

In Gear
1967 | 9 mins
The Sixties swing into Carnaby Street and the King's Road.
Collection: London Calling

In Search of Dracula with Jonathan Ross
1996 | 52 mins
Jonathan Ross celebrates 100 years of Bram Stoker's creation...and gets distracted by Hammer's heaving bosoms.
Collection: The Book Group

In the Pink
1982 | 30 mins
Jonathan Ross celebrates 100 years of Bram Stoker's creation...and gets distracted by Hammer's heaving bosoms.
Collection: Channel 4 Anniversary

Inappropriate Behaviour
1987 | 78 mins
A female psychiatrist develops feelings towards a schoolgirl patient.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Incident
1971 | mins
An anti-short short film? A 4 minute wonder starring Stephen Frears.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

India
1929 | 16 mins
Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi.
Collection: Before Midnight

An Indian Summer
1992 | 30 mins
Sir Leonard Cheshire's final journey to India.
Collection: Raphael

An Indian Washing the Baby
1906 | 2 mins
India's cleanest child enjoys an enthusiastic wash and Ayurvedic massage.
Collection: Before Midnight

Insight - Zandra Rhodes
1981 | 14 mins
Peter Greenaway's innovative day-in-the-life portrait.
Collection: Brit Chic

Intensive Care
1982 | 80 mins
A teacher visits his dying father and strikes up a rapport with the night nurse in Alan Bennett's black comedy, starring Thora Hird and Julie Walters.
Collection: Play for Today

The Iron Dale
1964 | 25 mins
Life at Stanton and Stavely Ltd. Ironworks.
Collection: Heartlands

The Irresponsibles
1929 | 40 mins
A no-nonsense warning of the perils of gonorrhoea and syphilis.
Collection: The Joy of Sex Education

Island People
1940 | 10 mins
The British way of life at the dawn of the 1940s.
Collection: Essentially British

It Ain't Half Racist, Mum
1979 | 30 mins
The pervasive racism of British TV in the '70s is exposed.
Collection: Black Britain

It Always Rains on Sunday
1947 | 92 mins
A housewife's life is complicated when her ex-lover, an escaped violent criminal, comes to her for shelter.
Collection: London Calling

Jack Hylton Presents: The Crazy Gang
1956 | 55 mins
The Crazy Gang at the Victoria Palace - British humour from another era.
Collection: Essentially British

Jack the Ripper
1963 | 3 mins
Screaming Lord Sutch performs a song of alarmingly questionable taste.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Jacqueline Du Pre and the Elgar Cello Concerto
1967 | 70 mins
Documentary about the legendary cellist, featuring a complete performance of her finest hour – the Elgar Cello Concerto.
Collections: Hope and Glory

Jacqueline Du Pre Masterclass
1979 | 35 mins
Cellist Jacqueline du Pré gives a masterclass on the Elgar Cello Concerto.
Collections: Hope and Glory

James Guthrie's Home Movies - Gyantse Trips
1935 | 50 mins
Amateur films shot in and around Gyantse, Tibet.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

James Guthrie's Home Movies - Lhasa Trips
1935 | 73 mins
Life in and around Lhasa.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

James Guthrie's Home Movies - Tibetan Ceremonies
1939 | 60 mins
Home movie footage including a potent scene featuring the young Dalai Lama in a golden palanquin.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

James Guthrie's Home Movies - Tibetan Valley Trips
1939 | 29 mins
Tibetan life and landscape by British Medical Officer/Civil Surgeon James Guthrie.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

James Guthrie's Home Movies: Miscellaneous Tibet Films
1935 | 39 mins
Ceremonies, people and landscapes - life in Tibet vividly captured by amateur filmmaker Guthrie.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

Jemima and Johnny
1966 | 30 mins
In a west London community divided by racism, a white boy befriends the daughter of a family recently arrived from the Caribbean.
Collection: Box of Delights

The Jewel in the Crown
1984 | 105 mins
Sex, class and scandal in the final days of the Raj.
Collection: Before Midnight

Jim Corbett Personal Films
1929 | 12 mins
Records of North India's wildlife - both living and dead - by the famous hunter and conservationist.
Collection: Before Midnight

John Galliano (South Bank Show)
1997 | 52 mins
Profile of the trailblazing British couturier during his time at Givenchy.
Collection: Brit Chic

Juvenile Liaison
1975 | 97 mins
Banned documentary from Nick Broomfield exposing the bullying methods of a juvenile liaison unit in Blackburn.
Collections: Cinema of Tomorrow

The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
1981 | 70 mins
Japanese servicemen - all played by white Englishmen - gather to commemorate their country's defeat 35 years previously.
Collections: Play for Today

Keep an Eye on Albert
1975 | 75 mins
The neglected wife of a pigeon fancier becomes attracted to his best mate.
Collections: Play for Today

Kenneth Williams (Comic Roots)
1983 | 30 mins
Kenneth Williams takes us on a very personal stroll around the city he called home.
Collection: London Calling

The Kenny Everett Television Show
1981 | 30 mins
The ethos of punk is alive and well in Kenny Everett's appropriately disrespectful hands.
Collection: Anarchy in the UK

Kensal House
1937 | 11 mins
A visionary community powered by the miracle of gas.
Collection: The Promised Land

Kensington Calling!
1930 | 8 mins
Squalid conditions in Kensington - and a bid for a brighter future.
Collection: London Calling

Kes
1969 | 113 mins
A boy and his kestrel - childhood has rarely been more potently captured.
Collection: Essentially British

Kill the Day
1997 | 18 mins
An ex-drug addict reflects on his life in and out of prison in Lynne Ramsay's sophomore effort.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

Kindly Leave the Raj
1969 | 56 mins
The Raj in the style of 'Oh What a Lovely War!'
Collection: Before Midnight

The Kiss in the Tunnel
1899 | 1 mins
Amorous Victorians indulge in illicit smooching.
Collection: Essentially British

Kizzy
1976 | 45 mins
A young Romany girl deals with prejudice after moving to a small village in Rumer Godden's tale for children.
Collection: Box of Delights

The Knowledge
1979 | 89 mins
Learner taxi drivers attempt to master 'the knowledge' of London's streets.
Collection: London Calling

Lace
1930 | 7 mins
The manufacture of Nottingham lace in the 1920s.
Collection: Heartlands

Ladies on Bicycles
1899 | 1 mins
Victorian ladies show off their slalom cycling skills.
Collection: Pandora's Box

The Ladykillers
1955 | 97 mins
Brilliant black comedy of armed robbers, murder and a Boccherini string quintet.
Collection: London Calling

Lambeth Marsh
2001 | 12 mins
A study of the London Borough of Lambeth, inspired by a William Blake poem.
Collection: London Calling

Land of Green Ginger
1973 | 50 mins
In Alan Plater's play a young woman returns to her hometown of Hull. But will she stay?
Collection: Play for Today

Land of Promise
1946 | 65 mins
Film 'argument' on the past, present and future of British housing.
Collection: The Promised Land

The Lane
1990 | 45 mins
6-part series about the communities, characters and hidden corners of Brick Lane and Spitalfields.
Collection: London Calling

Lap
2004 | 15 mins
A lap dancer meets a man at a bus stop one rainy night.
Collection: Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

The Last of England *
1987 | 88 mins
Derek Jarman's dark, poetic vision of a city and a country brought to its knees.
Collection: London Calling

The League of Gentlemen
1999 | 30 mins
Welcome to the weird world of Royston Vasey. You'll never leave!
Collection: Heartlands

Learie Constantine
1946 | 10 mins
A day in the life of the Trinidadian-British cricketer.
Collections: Black Britain

Learning About Sex
1977 | 25 mins
Sex ed in the '70s.
Collection: The Joy of Sex Education

Leeds - United!
1974 | 117 mins
Play for Today at its angriest - exploited factory workers literally strike back.
Collection: Play for Today

Leicester Coffee Houses
1930 | 3 mins
Fondants, fancies and coffee house culture in Leicestershire.
Collection: Heartlands

Leicestershire: A Heritage at Risk
1970 | 25 mins
A sharp warning from Leicestershire council on the need for greater preservation of the countryside.
Collection: Heartlands

The Lenny Henry Show
1984 | 29 mins
A showcase for comedian Lenny Henry, featuring a mix of stand up monologues, sketches and spoof songs.
Collection: Black Britain

Leo the Last
1969 | 104 mins
John Boorman's surreal vision of culture clash in Notting Hill.
Collection: London Calling

Let’s Pretend: The Make Believe World of Daphne du Maurier
1977 | 38 mins
In conversation with Cliff Michelmore, Dame Daphne looks back over an astonishing life.
Collection: The Book Group

Licking Hitler
1978 | 65 mins
During WWII, a woman is sent deep into the countryside to work in secret with a Glaswegian journalist, where she finds herself in a brutal and sinister world.
Collection: Play for Today

The Lie
1970 | 90 mins
Ingmar Bergman dissects a marriage breakdown.
Collection: Play for Today

A Life Apart
1977 | 25 mins
An examination of the charity Raphael's work with people living with leprosy.
Collections: Raphael

Life in Hunza
1937 | 8 mins
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern Areas of Pakistan.
Collection: Before Midnight

Lights and Shades on the Bostock Circus Farm
1911 | 5 mins
A tumultuous and tragic day on the Bostock Circus Farm.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Like Other People
1972 | 50 mins
The emotional and physical needs of a couple with disabilities.
Collection: Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

Linger
1995 | 15 mins
A postcard from an old friend reminds a woman of the night they drunkenly made love.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Listen to Britain
1942 | 10 mins
The sounds of the Home Front - with appearances from Dame Myra Hess, Flanagan and Allen and the Queen Mother.
Collection: Reality Bites

Little Britain
2004 | 30 mins
Are Vicky Pollard and Daffyd Thomas the voices of 21st century Britain?
Collection: Essentially British

Living Statistic
2005 | 11 mins
The bid by Weymouth residents to save the Kachepa family from deportation.
Collection: Essentially British

Lizzie Dripping
1973 | 20 mins
Lizzie Dripping's first encounters with the witch...
Collection: Box of Delights

Lizzie Dripping Again
1975 | 20 mins
The second series of Lizzie Dripping from 1975.
Collection: Box of Delights

Lobsters
1936 | 16 mins
The king of crustaceans gets his own movie.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Local Hero
1983 | 111 mins
Residents of an idyllic Scottish coastal village see dollar signs when a US oil company tries to move in.
Collection: Essentially British

Lol - A Bona Queen of Fabularity
1981 | 40 mins
The life and times of a London drag queen.
Collections: Beautiful Things

Lola - Crown Court
1976 | 72 mins
A gay transvestite comes under fire in this 3-parter from 'Crown Court'.
Collections: Beautiful Things

London
1994 | 85 mins
Patrick Keiller's joyously idiosyncratic chronicle of a year in the life of the capital.
Collection: London Calling

London Adventure with the Wetton Family: Wetton Personal Film
1951 | 9 mins
One family's edited home movie recording the magic of the Festival of Britain.
Collection: Building the South Bank

London Can Take It!
1940 | 10 mins
A depiction of the stoicism of Londoners during the Blitz, crafted in the hope of America entering the War.
Collection: London Calling

The London Nobody Knows
1967 | 48 mins
A stroll with James Mason around the more eccentric corners of the capital.
Collection: London Calling

London Orbital
2002 | 76 mins
Iain Sinclair and Chris Petit's visionary film about the world's largest by-pass - the M25.
Collection: London Calling

London Street Scenes
1920 | 4 mins
A busy, bustling celebration of the capital.
Collection: London Calling

London Street Scenes - Trafalgar Square
1910 | 1 mins
A 180 degree panorama of Trafalgar Square in 1910.
Collection: London Calling

London Town [93min version]
1946 | 93 mins
Glorious, camp Technicolor treat or failed London musical?
Collection: London Calling

The Londoners
1939 | 37 mins
The London County Council sings its own praises.
Collection: London Calling

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962 | 99 mins
A borstal boy turns marathon runner in this adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's novel.
Collection: Heartlands

The Long Distance Piano Player
1970 | 80 mins
The Kinks' Ray Davies stars as a pianist who embarks on a 4-day musical marathon.
Collections: Play for Today

The Long Good Friday
1981 | 114 mins
Helen Mirren and Bob Hoskins call the shots in the great East End gangster epic.
Collection: London Calling

Long Live Rutland
1975 | 30 mins
Documentary about Rutland made shortly after it became part of Leicestershire.
Collection: Heartlands

Lord Willingdon in India
1930 | 12 mins
Home movie of the Viceroy of India.
Collection: Before Midnight

The Lost Language of Cranes
1992 | 87 mins
Nature or nurture? A father and son discover that they have something in common.
Collection: Beautiful Things

The Lost World of Tibet [90min version]
2008 | 90 mins
The BBC/BFI documentary exploring life in pre-invasion Tibet features a potent interview with the Dalai Lama.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998 | 87 mins
Derek Jacobi and Daniel Craig star as artist Francis Bacon and his muse, George Dyer.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Love on the Range
1939 | 6 mins
It's Horlicks to the rescue in this animated ad set in the Wild West.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Love Story
1944 | 113 mins
Love conquers all: Margaret Lockwood and Stewart Granger defy death on the Cornish coast.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Love Test
1935 | 60 mins
Scheming chemists in laboratory love triangle shock!
Collection: The Truth About Love

Love Thy Neighbour
1971 | 26 mins
The hugely popular - but deeply racist - '70s sitcom starring Rudolph Walker and Nina Baden-Semper.
Collection: Black Britain

Love, Sex and Disability
1999 | 30 mins
Five disabled people discuss their sex lives.
Collection: Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

Loving Memory
1970 | 57 mins
Tony Scott’s debut feature - a bizarre story of love and loss.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

Lunch-Hour
1933 | 8 mins
London at lunchtime.
Collection: London Calling

Lust for a Vampire
1970 | 95 mins
Hammer horror with a sapphic twist.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Mackrell Personal Films
1934 | 36 mins
Hunting and fishing are the order of the day in the colourful home movies of this Assam-based tea planter.
Collection: Before Midnight

Made in Huddersfield
1985 | 90 mins
A look at the Second Wave of punk that hit the North of England in the 1980s.
Collection: Anarchy in the UK

The Magic Toyshop
1987 | 107 mins
'80s TV adaptation of Angela Carter's 1967 magical-realist novel, rarely seen since its first broadcast.
Collection: The Book Group

Magnus Family in India
1927 | 13 mins
Home movie footage of the Magnus family.
Collection: Before Midnight

Maharajah of Jodhpur - Personal Films
1946 | 260 mins
See India from a royal perspective with these home movie records of princely power and sumptuous ceremony.
Collection: Before Midnight

Mahatma Gandhi (Noa Khali March)
1947 | 18 mins
Rarely seen footage of Gandhi filmed by his great nephew, Kanu.
Collection: Before Midnight

Main Line Diesel
1946 | 14 mins
The Derby Works proudly present Britain's first diesel locomotive.
Collection: Heartlands

Maisie's Marriage aka Married Love
1923 | 95 mins
Based on Marie Stopes' 1918 bestseller about sex and sexuality, Maisie learns the advantages of having a small family.
Collection: The Joy of Sex Education

Making Christmas Crackers
1910 | 6 mins
Factory workers demonstrate the manufacture of crackers, and a family receives a Christmas surprise.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Making Fashion (aka Design for Spring)
1936 | 15 mins
'30s models strut their stuff on the Hartnell catwalk.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Manifesto for Love
2003 | 6 mins
An exploration of the meaning of love - accompanied by Dusty Springfield.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Market Town
1942 | 11 mins
It's market day in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire. Let's meet the 'country folk'!
Collection: Heartlands

The Mary Quant Show
1974 | 5 mins
Revisit the mistress of the mini-skirt.
Collection: Brit Chic

Mary's Birthday
1951 | 11 mins
Germ warfare threatens to ruin young Mary's birthday party.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Master of the King's Musik
1931 | 3 mins
Elgar conducts Land of Hope and Glory.
Collection: Hope and Glory

A Matter of Life and Death
1946 | 104 mins
Heavenly love - the Powell and Pressburger must-see classic.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Mayfair Merry-Go-Round
1954 | 10 mins
Katie Boyle sells affordable fashion to 50s women in this early magazine show.
Collection: Brit Chic

Mayor Making
1946 | 5 mins
The election and installation of Derby's mayor in 1946.
Collection: Heartlands

Meet of the Quorn Hounds at Kirby Gate
1912 | 3 mins
The hunting pack prepare for the chase.
Collection: Heartlands

Men Cycling Up a Country Lane
1910 | 2 mins
Men on motorbikes.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Men of Corby
1961 | 30 mins
Rabbie Burns transplanted to the East Midlands.
Collection: Heartlands

Metro-Land
1973 | 50 mins
John Betjeman examines the culture and spirit of Metro-Land - the outer reaches of the Metropolitan Railway.
Collection: London Calling

Mile End Purgatorio
1991 | 2 mins
All the signs point to the Mile End Road.
Collection: London Calling

Minder
1984 | 50 mins
Arthur Daley has difficulty tracking down a debt in Brick Lane.
Collection: London Calling

Miners Leaving Pendlebury Colliery
1901 | 1 mins
A young black miner is among the crowd leaving Pendlebury Colliery, Salford.
Collection: Black Britain

Mining Review 7th Year No.12
1954 | 10 mins
Ballet dancing miners and the crowning of the 'Coal Queen'.
Collection: Essentially British

Mixed Marriages
1958 | 15 mins
Racism and mixed-race relationships.
Collection: Black Britain

Momma Don't Allow
1956 | 21 mins
An evening at the Wood Green Jazz Club with Chris Barber's Jazz Band.
Collection: Cinema of Tomorrow

Monday Morning
1958 | 10 mins
Crouch End awakens.
Collection: London Calling

The Monster of Highgate Ponds
1960 | 59 mins
There's a monster on the loose in Highgate! 'Godzilla' for the under-9s.
Collection: Box of Delights

Monty Python's Flying Circus
1970 | 30 mins
Silly voices, comedy Nazis, upper class twits...
Collection: Essentially British

Morris Dancing at Berkhamsted
1950 | 2 mins
A noble English tradition is preserved in Hertfordshire.
Collection: Essentially British

Moslems in Britain - Cardiff
1961 | 20 mins
Upbeat portrait of the experiences of Muslims living in Cardiff in the early 1960s.
Collection: Reality Bites

A Mountain Nurse
1977 | 26 mins
Treating tuberculosis in the Himalayan foothills.
Collections: Raphael

Mountaineer's Romance
1912 | 22 mins
Remarkable love-triangle drama shot in the Peak District.
Collection: Heartlands

Mr English At Home
1940 | 27 mins
A day in the life of the 'typical' English family.
Collection: Essentially British

Mrs Williamson's Tibetan Films - Part 1
1930 | 90 mins
Vivid homes movies of life in Tibet made by the Political Officer.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

Mrs Williamson's Tibetan Films - Part 2
1930 | 83 mins
Life in Tibet - look out for the somewhat suprising egg-and-spoon race...
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

Mrs Williamson's Tibetan Films - Part 3
1930 | 89 mins
Home movie scenes in Lhasa, Tibet - as well as further afield in India and Bhutan.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

Mrs Williamson's Tibetan Films - Part 4
1930 | 22 mins
Home movie footage of life in Tibetan monasteries.
Collection: The Search for Shangri-La

Murphy's Mob
1985 | 24 mins
Kids' series about the young supporters of Dunmore United Football Club.
Collection: Heartlands

Murrain
1975 | 55 mins
A young vet is forced to join a local witch hunt in Nigel Kneale's forerunner to 'Beasts'.
Collection: Heartlands

The Muscle Market
1981 | 80 mins
Pete Postlethwaite and Alison Steadman star in Alan Bleasdale's play.
Collections: Play for Today

My Beautiful Laundrette *
1985 | 97 mins
Inter-racial love on the tumble dryers.
Collection: London Calling

My Night with Reg
1997 | 105 mins
Love in the time of AIDS - from the writer of 'Clapham Junction'.
Collection: Beautiful Things

The Mystery of Marriage
1932 | 32 mins
A comparison of the mating rituals of humans, animals and plants unlocks the secrets of marriage.
Collection: The Joy of Sex Education

Naked - As Nature Intended *
1961 | 60 mins
Gratuitous nudity masquerading as a South West travelogue.
Collection: Essentially British

The Naked Civil Servant
1975 | 78 mins
A BAFTA-winning John Hurt portrays the great, empowering Quentin Crisp.
Collection: Beautiful Things

The Negro Next Door
1965 | 30 mins
The white residents of a Leeds suburb express their thoughts on their new black neighbours.
Collection: Reality Bites

Nervous Energy
1995 | 105 mins
A young Glaswegian man with AIDS returns to visit his family and friends, but when things do not go as planned his lover comes to patch things up.
Collection: Beautiful Things

New Architecture at the London Zoo
1937 | 15 mins
Penguins get the VIP treatment in this artistic look at the Zoo's visionary '30s revamp.
Collection: London Calling

New Styles of Architecture
1993 | 26 mins
Alan Bennett surveys the architectural landscape of post-WWI Britain.
Collection: The Promised Land

New Towns for Old
1942 | 7 mins
Bulldozers compete with bombers to clear the slums in Sheffield.
Collection: The Promised Land

Nice Time
1957 | 17 mins
Has Piccadilly Circus ever looked so bleak?
Collections: London Calling

Night Mail
1936 | 23 mins
London to Scotland by train in the company of Benjamin Britten and W. H. Auden.
Collection: Reality Bites

Nixon's Version of Watergate (The Nixon Interviews)
1977 | 85 mins
The real 'Frost/Nixon'.
Collections: Frost/Mediatheque

No Problem!
1983 | 30 mins
An introduction to the comic world of Willesden's Powell family.
Collections: Black Britain

The North West Frontier
1959 | 129 mins
Adventure yarn starring Kenneth More as a plucky Brit sent to rescue a Hindu Prince from certain death in British India.
Collection: Before Midnight

Northampton
1932 | 50 mins
A survey of Northampton from the 1930s.
Collection: Heartlands

Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens
1922 | 63 mins
Have your spine tingled by F.W. Murnau's silent classic - the first screen adaptation of Dracula.
Collection: The Book Group

Noted Eel and Pie Houses
1975 | 45 mins
Fascinating social history of that great London delicacy - the jellied eel.
Collection: London Calling

Now That It's Morning
1992 | 11 mins
Neil Bartlett's provocatively romantic tale of the love between a 45-year-old man and a 15-year-old schoolboy.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Nude Woman By Waterfall
1920 | 12 mins
A woman poses - in and out of her diaphanous shift.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Nuts in May
1976 | 85 mins
A new age couple try to get back to nature - but does nature want them back?
Collection: Essentially British

O Dreamland
1953 | 11 mins
The dubious delights of a Margate funfair.
Collections: Essentially British

O Fat White Woman
1971 | 70 mins
The wife of a sadistic headmaster is forced to face the truth about her marriage.
Collections: Play for Today

The Obelisk
1977 | 30 mins
A married couple have their horizons broadened during a trip to the seaside in this adaptation of E.M. Forster's short story.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Odeon Cinema Club
1943 | 1 mins
Early karaoke from the Odeon National Cinema Club. Singalong with the bouncing ball...
Collection: Pandora's Box

The Office
2001 | 30 mins
David Brent, Slough's favourite son, entertains the nation.
Collection: Essentially British

Often During the Day
1978 | 16 mins
The notion that 'the woman belongs in the kitchen' gets a grilling in Jo Davis' film.
Collection: British Islands

Oh Rosalinda! [aka Die Fledermaus]
1955 | 101 mins
Love, lust and infidelity in this Technicolor updating of Johann Strauss' operetta, Die Fledermaus.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Old London Street Scenes
1903 | 3 mins
Traffic congestion in Edwardian London.
Collection: London Calling

The Old Maid’s Valentine
1900 | 1 mins
February 14th brings sorrow for one spinster.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Oliver Strachey in Drag
1930 | 1 mins
The Bloomsbury set are at it again...
Collection: Pandora's Box

Oliver Twist
1948 | 116 mins
Masterful adaptation of Dickens' classic set on the sordid streets of 1830s London.
Collection: London Calling

Oliver Twist Casting Appeal
1946 | 1 min
Young Pip from 'Great Expectations' helps David Lean find an Oliver.
Collections: Pandora's Box

Omnibus
1982 | 50 mins
Bob Hoskins offers his unvarnished opinion on the architectural dilemmas facing the South Bank.
Collection: Building the South Bank

On Ilkla' Moor Baht At
1921 | 14 mins
The Yorkshire Dales - from Ilkley to Hubberholme.
Collection: Essentially British

On the Black Hill
1987 | 117 mins
Adaptation of Bruce Chatwin's tale of twin brothers battling the elements - and each other.
Collection: Essentially British

On the Tracks of the Wild Otter
1982 | 50 mins
The lives of otters: surveillance in the Shetland Isles.
Collections: Otterly Marvellous

Once We Were Four
1942 | 9 mins
Innocent bunnies face an onslaught of badgers, bombs and birds of prey in this black comedy masquerading as a nature film.
Collections: Pandora's Box

One Family
1930 | 49 mins
A schoolboy, a Christmas pudding and a bizarre portrait of the British Empire.
Collection: Essentially British

One in Five
1983 | 53 mins
Endearingly right-on concoction bringing together lesbians and gay men for dancing and debate.
Collections: Beautiful Things

One on One: David Frost
2002 | 38 mins
A guided tour through the highlights of Sir David Frost’s career in television.
Collections: Frost/Mediatheque

Only Connect
1979 | 49 mins
Gay lives connect across a century in Noel Greig and Drew Griffiths' moving drama.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Only Fools and Horses
1982 | 30 mins
Join the hapless Trotters of Nelson Mandela House, Peckham, for an impromptu tour of London.
Collection: London Calling

The Open Road
1927 | 60 mins
An epic trip across Britain filmed in remarkable early colour.
Collection: Essentially British

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990 | 55 mins
When her relationship with a female friend turns into something more serious, a girl's ultra-religious family try to brainwash her to renounce her 'satanic' ways.
Collection: Beautiful Things

Orkney
1971 | 90 mins
Three beautiful, bleak tales from the Scottish Isle of Orkney.
Collection: Play for Today

Othello
1956 | 120 mins
The first televised production of Shakespeare's play to feature a black actor in the lead role.
Collection: Black Britain

The Otter aka An Otter Study
1912 | 8 mins
Marvel at an otter from before WWI in this early nature film.
Collection: Box of Delights

Out of the Darkness
1985 | 68 mins
Three children in the Derbyshire village of Eyam are haunted by the ghosts of the 1665 plague.
Collection: Heartlands

Out on Tuesday
1989 | 53 mins
Can homosexuality be 'promoted', and will playing gay ruin your career?
Collection: Beautiful Things

Out to Play
1936 | 10 mins
Playtime in the streets and parks of London.
Collection: Reality Bites

Outside In aka Das Innere Bloss
1981 | 100 mins
A combination of memories from the visual diary of disabled artist Steve Dwoskin.
Collection: Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

An Over-Incubated Baby
1901 | 1 mins
A growth experiment goes horribly wrong in this macabre minute of black comedy.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Oyster Fishing at Whitstable, England
1920 | 6 mins
The harvest and consumption of everyone's favourite bivalve.
Collection: Pandora's Box

Pacemakers: Biba
1970 | 14 mins
Drop in on a photoshoot at the iconic Kensington fashion emporium.
Collection: Brit Chic

Panorama of Calcutta
1899 | 1 mins
The Calcutta ghats - or are they?
Collection: Before Midnight

Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram
1901 | 1 mins
A tram ride through Ealing at its most appealing.
Collection: London Calling

Partners in Crime
1942 | 9 mins
A stern reprimand to housewives meddling in the black market.
Collection: Housewives' Choice

A Passage to India
1965 | 110 mins
E. M. Forster's masterful tale of racism in colonial India is brought to the small screen in Waris Hussein's rarely-seen production.
Collection: Before Midnight

Passport to Pimlico
1949 | 84 mins
Pimlico fights for independence from Britain after the discovery of an ancient treaty.
Collection: London Calling

Passport to Shame
1958 | 95 mins
Diana Dors stars in this stern exposé of the white slave trade.
Collection: The Truth About Love

Peak County
1964 | 20 mins
Derbyshire travelogue covering the heritage, scenery and industry of the county.
Collection: Heartlands

Peak District
1954 | 20 mins
A tour around the Peak District with Robert Shaw as your guide.
Collection: Heartlands

Peak Practice
1993 | 75 mins
Amanda Burton stars in first episode of the long-running Derbyshire-set series.
Collection: Heartlands

Peaks and Dales
1952 | 15 mins
A Visit to Derbyshire Peak District by way of Matlock and Bakewell.
Collection: Heartlands

Peeping Tom
1960 | 101 mins
Voyeurism, serial murder and child abuse... Powell's psychological thriller has lost none of its power to shock.
Collection: London Calling

Penda's Fen
1974 | 90 mins
English pagan myths and burgeoning sexuality in the Malverns.
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