Silent cinema
Chaplin at Keystone
Charlie Chaplin joined Mack Sennett’s Keystone Film Company in late 1913 after being seen in Fred Karno’s touring vaudeville troupe.
Charlie Chaplin: Mutual Films Volume 1
Charlie Chaplin entered movies in 1914.
Charlie Chaplin: Mutual Films Volume 2
This DVD contains six of the Mutual Films, all made in 1916; The Floorwalker, The Fireman, The Vagabond, One A.M., The Count and The Pawnshop.
Charlie Chaplin: The Essanay Films Volume 1
In December 1914, Charlie Chaplin began his one-year contract with the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, shooting films in both their Chicago and
Charlie Chaplin: The Essanay Films Volume 2
In December 1914, Charlie Chaplin began his one-year contract with the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, shooting films in both their Chicago and
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
Dickens Before Sound
A unique collection of early adaptations of Britain’s favourite and (after Shakespeare) most adapted author.
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
Fairy Tales: Early Colour Stencil films from Pathe
A selection of tinted fairy tales from the Pathé Frères company, made to appeal to young and old alike.
The Great White Silence
The alien beauty of the landscape is brought dramatically to life, showing the world of the expedition in brilliant detail.
The Lost World of Friese-Greene
In the mid-1920s, pioneering film-maker Claude Friese-Greene made a series of films during an intrepid drive from Land’s End to John O’
The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon
From 1900 to 1913, filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon, commissioned by touring showmen, roamed the North of England, Scotland, Ireland and
Man with a Movie Camera
Man With a Movie Camera is an extraordinary piece of film-making, a montage of urban Russian life showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going.
Michael Nyman’s Man With a Movie Camera
This is a fully remastered edition of Man With a Movie Camera with Michael Nyman’s score.
The Miners’ Hymns
An elegy to the coal mining history of north east England.
Nosferatu
When Bram Stoker’s widow refused to grant Murnau the rights to Dracula, Murnau and his screenwriter Henrik Galeen simply changed the characte
The Open Road
In the summer of 1924 Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of colour cinematography, set out from Cornwall with the aim of recording life on the road be
People on Sunday
A tale of five young Berliners – a taxi driver, a travelling wine dealer, a record shop sales girl, a film extra and a model – on a typical Sunday.
Piccadilly
One of the pinnacles of British silent cinema, Piccadilly is a sumptuous showbiz melodrama seething with sexual and racial tension.
Silent Britain
In this pioneering BBC4 documentary, Matthew Sweet takes us on a journey through the first three decades of British cinema, telling the story of on
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