British cinema
The COI Collection Volume One: Police and Thieves
Volume one of the Central Office of Information collection tackles crime, juvenile delinquency, policing and the justice system.
The COI Collection Volume Seven: The Queen on Tour
Official records of the royal tours and state visits of Queen Elizabeth II, offering unprecedcented access.
The COI Collection Volume Six: Worth the Risk?
This volume of COI films examines the issue of ‘risk’ in our everyday lives.
The COI Collection Volume Three: They Stand Ready
The third volume in the COI Collection, They Stand Ready, looks at Britain’s armed forces.
The COI Collection Volume Two: Design for Today
Established in 1946, the Central Office of Information (COI) was a successor to the wartime Ministry of Information and was responsible for produci
The Complete Humphrey Jennings Collection Volume One: The First Days
Widely considered one of Britain’s greatest documentary filmmakers, Humphrey Jennings has long been critically acclaimed for films which beau
The Complete Humphrey Jennings Collection Volume Two: Fires Were Started
Widely considered to be one of Britain’s greatest filmmakers, Humphrey Jennings has long been celebrated as the director of works which beaut
Comrades
The epic story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset labourers deported to Australia in the 1830s for forming a trade union.
A Cottage on Dartmoor
One of the very last silent films to be made in Britain before the talkies revolutionised cinema, A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) is a virtuoso piece
The Crowded Day + Song of Paris
A vintage double bill of drama and comedy from British director John Guillermin (Death on the Nile, The Towering Inferno).
A Day in the Life
John Krish is one of British cinema’s best-kept secrets: a master of post-war documentary filmmaking who repeatedly turned his works for spon
Deep End
Legally unavailable for decades, Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1970 darkly comic and utterly compelling portrait of Britain in a era of uncertainty makes its long overdue return.
The Devils
In seventeenth century France, Father Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), uses his powers to protect the city of Loudun from destruction at the hands of
Dickens Before Sound
A unique collection of early adaptations of Britain’s favourite and (after Shakespeare) most adapted author.
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Winner of the International Critics’ Prize, Cannes 1988
The Draughtsman’s Contract
Peter Greenaway became a director of international status with this witty, stylised, erotic country house murder mystery.
Duffer + The Moon over the Alley
Duffer, an intense and bizarre study of obsession that is by turns beautiful and disturbing, tells the story of a teenage boy torn between the woma
Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers
The BFI’s fascinating collection of 60 short films all made before 1911 comes to DVD with the aim of giving wider access to some of the extra
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