A new BFI Mediatheque has opened in Newcastle's Discovery Museum. Free for everyone to enjoy, the BFI Mediatheque offers nearly 2,000 complete films and TV programmes to watch, with more than 100 depicting life in Newcastle and the North East.

The launch is part of a project to provide greater access to BFI National Archive material. This is the fourth BFI Mediatheque outside London so far, and will be followed by Mediatheques in Birmingham and Manchester.

Amanda Nevill, Director of the BFI, explains:

"Film provides such a tantalising view of how the people of Britain lived and worked and played over the past century or more. We always said when we opened our first Mediatheque at BFI Southbank in London that our aim was to replicate it in every nation and region of the UK."

Related content:

• BFI Mediatheques

External links:

• Discovery Museum
• The Building of the New Tyne Bridge (1928) on YouTube