All Mediatheque films
Due to an unforeseen technical problem we have been unable to launch the Funny Girls and Easter Bunnies collections advertised in the March 2008 BFI Southbank Guide. We are working hard to resolve the problem and will add these collections as soon as possible. Meanwhile we apologise for any disappointment and hope that you will enjoy browsing through the 1000+ titles currently available in the Mediatheque.
28 Up
1984 | 135 mins
The children first interviewed when they were 7 in 1964 are revisited at the age of 28.
3 Minute Heroes
1982 | 60 mins
Cult '80s drama following the lives of inner city teens.
3 Non-Blondes
2003 | 30 mins
Candid Camera' with attitude featuring the soon-to-be Little Miss Jocelyn.
The 39 Steps
1935 | 87 mins
A boy's own adventure from London to Scotland. Hitchcock's best British film?
84 Charing Cross Road
1975 | 75 mins
Love among the second hand books.
ABC Xmas and New Year Greetings
1946 | 3 mins
Santa doles out the pressies courtesy of Associated British Cinemas.
Abigail's Party
1977 | 100 mins
Beverly hands out the brickbats with the 'little cheesy pineapple ones'.
The Acrobatic Fly
1910 | 3 mins
Roll up, roll up! The fly circus is in town!
Adeste Fideles
1941 | 13 mins
The spirit of Christmas is alive and well in wartime Britain.
The African Trade
1997 | 25 mins
The shrouded history of black slave merchants.
Age of Dissent
1994 | 51 mins
Will Parry and Hugo Greenhalgh campaign to lower the age of consent for gay men from 21 to 16.
AIDS: Iceberg / Monolith
1985 | 2 mins
Don’t die of ignorance - the government's infamous AIDS awareness campaign.
Alfalfa
1987 | 9 mins
The queer alphabet - from AC/DC to Zipper.
Alice in Wonderland
1903 | 8 mins
Cinema's first trip down the rabbit hole.
The Alien Sky
1956 | 98 mins
Colonial chaos on the cusp of Indian Independence in this early TV drama from Paul Scott's novel.
All Good Men
1974 | 63 mins
The relationship between a labour politician and his Marxist son falters when a television crew visits.
Amelia and the Angel
1958 | 30 mins
Ken Russell's magical fantasy about an angel who loses her wings.
An Englishman Abroad
1983 | 60 mins
Coral Browne meets Cambridge spy Guy Burgess in Russia in this Alan Bennett-scripted drama.
An Englishman's Home
1946 | 2 mins
A salute to the calming influence of Horlicks.
An Indian Affair
2001 | 149 mins
3-part examination of Britain's involvement in India.
An Indian Summer
1992 | 30 mins
Sir Leonard Cheshire's final journey to India.
An Indian Washing the Baby
1906 | 2 mins
India's cleanest child enjoys an enthusiastic wash and Ayurvedic massage.
An Over-Incubated Baby
1901 | 1 mins
A growth experiment goes horribly wrong in this macabre minute of black comedy.
An Ultra Modern House
1931 | 3 mins
The ultimate in streamlined chic - on a hillside above Amersham.
Andy the Furniture Maker
1986 | 60 mins
An unlikely star of the 1980s art world is given a suitably unconventional profile.
Angela Carter's Curious Room
1992 | 50 mins
Omnibus profile, poignantly filmed shortly before the author's death.
The Angelic Conversation
1985 | 81 mins
Derek Jarman's queer reading of 14 Shakespeare sonnets addressed to a young man, narrated by Judi Dench.
Annual Inspection of the Bodyguard by His Excellency the Lord Lytton
1925 | 5 mins
Lord Lytton and family - on and off duty.
Another Case of Poisoning
1949 | 14 mins
Coughs and sneezes spread diseases - some sanitary warnings to the wise...
Another Country
1984 | 88 mins
The fictionalised schooldays of future Cambridge spy Guy Burgess.
Another World by Sean Connery
1962 | 5 mins
A slightly awkward Sean Connery makes an appeal on behalf of the RNIB.
Any Evening After Work
1930 | 22 mins
The British Social Hygiene Council comes to the rescue of a young man who catches something nasty.
Any Man's Kingdom
1956 | 22 mins
The lure of Northumberland as portrayed by British Transport Films.
Aquatic Frolics
1926 | 1 min
Bathing beauties in Blackpool.
Architecture or Revolution
1966 | 30 mins
Televised student debate on the future of architecture.
Are You Being Served?
1973 | 30 mins
Mr Humphries: dreadful stereotype or national hero?
Arrival of Mah H.R.H. Jind
1911 | 1 mins
Royalty arrives by train.
Arrival of the Earl of Lytton at Calcutta
1922 | 7 mins
Lord Lytton comes to take up the post of Governor of Bengal.
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
1940 | 84 mins
When a death occurs during a charity football match, Scotland Yard are called in.
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.
The Attendant
1993 | 8 mins
A museum attandant indulges his sado-masochistic fantasies.
Audrey Hepburn Test
1952 | 5 mins
Early silent colour footage of the future Holly Golightly.
Ave You Got a Male Assistant Please Miss?
1973 | 5 mins
Students have sex.
B.D. Women
1994 | 12 mins
The hidden histories of black lesbians.
Baby's Toilet
1905 | 3 mins
Nothing to do with potties... Baby gets a good wash.
Babylon
1980 | 95 mins
Brinsley Forde stars as a young rapper in one of the first British features to explore black youth culture.
The Ballad of the Battered Bicycle
1947 | 10 mins
How not to ride your bike.
Bar Mitzvah Boy
1976 | 75 mins
Much-loved bittersweet Jewish family comedy from Jack Rosenthal.
Battling Bruisers: Some Boxing Buffoonery
1925 | 16 mins
Effeminate fisticuffs from the French in this boxing-themed send-up of foreign stereotypes.
Beautiful Thing
1996 | 87 mins
Two teenage boys fall in love in South East London to the songs of the Mamas and the Papas.
A Bed Among the Lentils
1988 | 50 mins
Can a fling with an Indian grocer rescue a vicar's wife from fetes and flower-arranging?
The Belles of St. Trinians
1954 | 91 mins
Ronald Searle's devils-in-gymslips receive their first big screen outing.
Bermondsey
1972 | 35 mins
'Brokeback Mountain' in a pub in South East London…
Berthold Lubetkin
1989 | 60 mins
A profile of the pioneering émigré architect.
Betcher
1971 | 13 mins
A very young Keith Chegwin shows off his cycling prowess.
Beyond Image
1969 | 17 mins
Psychedelia without the illegal drugs.
Bikaner
1934 | 8 mins
A portrait of the city in Rajasthan.
The Bill Douglas Trilogy
1978 | 181 mins
Bill Douglas's bleak, brilliant, autobiographical trilogy of films.
Billy Merson singing 'Desdemona'
1927 | 3 mins
The great music hall performer sings, dances and skips with a lyre.
Birthday Procession of a Maharajah
1905 | 1 mins
Royalty on elephantback.
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'.
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.
Black Narcissus
1947 | 100 mins
Tensions and repressed passions possess a group of nuns working in the Himalayas.
Black on Black
1983 | 30 mins
Channel 4's pioneering magazine show made for Britain's black communities.
Black Peoples of the Americas
1997 | 100 mins
A young Briton explores the history of the British slave trade and its aftermath in his search for his roots.
Black Silk
1985 | 50 mins
Rudolph Walker stars as a barrister with political ambitions and strong links to his local community.
The Black Stuff
1980 | 110 mins
A first outing for Yosser Hughes and co in Alan Bleasdale's 'Boys From...' forerunner.
Blackfriars Bridge
1896 | 1 mins
Top-hatted Victorians and horse-drawn traffic cross Blackfriars Bridge.
Blackmail
1929 | 82 mins
Manslaughter, blackmail and an epic chase through the British Museum. Hitchcock's first sound film.
Blackmail Test Take
1929 | 1 mins
Hitchcock gets dirty with his leading lady.
Blasphemy at the Old Bailey
1977 | 75 mins
Gay News vs. Mary Whitehouse - one of the most controversial trials of modern times.
Blight
1994 | 10 mins
An East End community voices its anger as homes are demolished to make way for the M11 road link.
Blood Ah Goh Run
1982 | 20 mins
The demonstrations following 1981's infamous New Cross Fire in which 13 young black people died.
Bloody Sunday
2002 | 120 mins
Award-winning drama about the civil rights protest march that ended in massacre. From the director of United 93.
Blooming Youth
1973 | 75 mins
Student love, life and squalor at a London 'poly'.
The Blue Lamp
1949 | 84 mins
Police drama that spawned the hugely successful series Dixon of Dock Green.
Blue Remembered Hills
1979 | 75 mins
Helen Mirren dons ankle socks in Dennis Potter's tragic evocation of childhood.
Body Beautiful
1990 | 23 mins
Ngozi Onwurah's powerful and poetic portrait of her relationship with her mother.
The Body Show
1982 | 30 mins
Legwarmers at the ready for Yvonne Ocampo's exercise regime.
Borderline
2005 | 4 mins
London as seen through the eyes of Escher.
Bow Bells
1955 | 14 mins
A nostalgic traipse through the East End accompanied by music-hall numbers.
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
1972 | 55 mins
The London Underground turns yellow in Michael Powell's charming Children's Film Foundation entry.
Boyfriends
1996 | 81 mins
Seven men spend a weekend in the country - gay sex, love and relationships in the 1990s
Boys
2000 | 25 mins
Sex and 16 year old boys.
Bradford Coronation Procession
1902 | 2 mins
A procession celebrating the coronation of King Edward VII.
Breaking the Chains
2005 | 60 mins
William Wilberforce and the rise of the abolition movement.
Breeze Anstey
1972 | 60 mins
A rural romance from H.E. Bates.
Brief City
1952 | 19 mins
How the Festival of Britain transformed the South Bank into a post-war wonderland.
Brief Encounter
1945 | 86 mins
Repressed emotions, steam trains and a fateful bit of grit in the eye.
Brimstone and Treacle
1976 | 75 mins
Satan pays a visit in this long-banned Dennis Potter play.
The British in India
1998 | 47 mins
Precicely what was and is Britain's legacy in India?
British India - Voices from an Imperial Past
1981 | 90 mins
British accounts of life during the Raj.
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
1919 | 107 mins
London's Limehouse Chinatown recreated in Hollywood.
Bronco Bullfrog
1969 | 86 mins
Youth culture in not-so-swinging Stratford.
The Brontë Business
1977 | 30 mins
Joan Bakewell joins Brontë Country's lucrative tourist trail.
The Brontë Connection
1979 | 50 mins
Who were the real-life figures behind Heathcliff and Co?
The Brontës Lived Here
1973 | 15 mins
Margaret Drabble examines the role of childhood games in the literary legacy of the Brontës.
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.
The Buddha of Suburbia
1993 | 240 mins
Gay sex, mysticism and family strife: revisit this four-part TV adaptation of Kureishi's debut novel.
Bullet Boy
2004 | 100 mins
A young black man struggles to avoid a life of crime after being released from jail.
Byker Wall Newcastle
1988 | 10 mins
Beatrix Campbell explores a 20th century 'walled city'.
Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine Film
1927 | 5 mins
The conditions that provide a breeding ground for the parasitic disease, kala azar.
Calcutta Topical No.1
1925 | 6 mins
Fashionably attired folk attend the races.
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?
A Canterbury Tale
1944 | 125 mins
Magical and unsetting evocation of rural Britain as seen through the eyes of WWII's modern pilgrims.
Capital Visit
1955 | 20 mins
A party of plummy-voiced school children spend an action-packed 3 days in London.
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.
The Captain Zip Video Trip
1978 | 74 mins
Amateur films of the punk scene in London, 1978-81.
Carry on Camping
1969 | 88 mins
The Carry On team go camping - in all senses of the word.
Carry On Constable
1960 | 86 mins
Williams, Hawtrey and co. dole out the Carry On treatment to Dixon of Dock Green.
Carry On Up the Khyber
1968 | 88 mins
The Burpas are revolting! The Carry On take on the Raj.
Chance Encounter
1978 | 17 mins
David Lean discusses his involvement with the Indian charity, Raphael.
Charley in New Town
1948 | 8 mins
Suburban utopia explained in this animated guide for townies.
The Cheese Mites
1903 | 1 mins
What's in your cheese? You don't want to know...
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
1974 | 90 mins
A radical history of Scotland in 90 minutes.
Chief Guide at Hyderabad Rally
1937 | 3 mins
Girl guides on parade.
Children of the Jungle
1939 | 17 mins
Documentary about the Bhil tribal people of central India.
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.
A Christmas Carol
1977 | 60 mins
Bah, humbug! Michael Hordern stars as Scrooge in this BBC adaptation of Dickens' Christmas classic.
Christmas Day in the Workhouse
1914 | 15 mins
Festive misery.
Christmas Greetings Trailers 1937 and 1938
1937 | 5 mins
Star-studded cinema trailers wish the audience a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Christmas is Coming
1951 | 2 mins
Post early for Christmas! Santa threatens to strike in Lotte Reiniger's animation.
Christmas Merry
2005 | 3 mins
Julia and Jim are dreaming of a white Christmas.
Christmas Message From Mr Oscar Deutsch
1939 | 4 mins
The founder of Odeon cinemas makes an appeal for the War Comforts Fund.
Christmas Under Fire
1941 | 11 mins
This year Christmas trees are cut short to fit in the shelters. Propaganda of the most moving kind.
Cinghalese Dances
1910 | 3 mins
Snapshots of life in Ceylon.
The Citadel
1992 | 14 mins
National and world events are imagined by a woman gazing across London.
Clarmont Skrine's Home Movies
1940 | 13 mins
Vivid colour home movies featuring the great Kathakali dancer Guru Gopinath and scenes in Bundi, Rajasthan.
Coffee Coloured Children
1988 | 15 mins
The plight of two mixed-race children brought up in an area where there were no other black children.
Collecting Postcards
1909 | 4 mins
Adulterers, take warning: never admit. Or go into postcard shops...
The Colony
1964 | 60 mins
From the Caribbean to Birmingham - immigrants tell of their experiences.
Colour on the Thames
1935 | 8 mins
A rare glimpse of 1930s London in colour. The Thames has never looked lovelier.
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.
The Comic Strip Presents... Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982 | 30 mins
The Famous Five receive the Comic Strip treatment.
Coming Out
1979 | 75 mins
A closeted gay author causes a stir after writing an anonymous gay article - is it time to come out?
Commissioner Higgins Visits Ahmedabad Girls' School
1904 | 2 mins
A visit from the Salvation Army.
Concrete Garden
1994 | 23 mins
11-year-old Marcia leaves Jamaica to join her parents in the bleak, racist London of the 1950s.
Connie
1979 | 55 mins
Connie has an eye for the other women in the factory.
The Connoisseur
1966 | 75 mins
Clandestine gay relationships cause tension at a boys' public school.
Consenting Adults 1: The Men
1967 | 30 mins
Gay men's lives on the eve of the Sexual Offences Act.
Coronation Durbar at Delhi
1903 | 2 mins
Pomp and circumstance marking the coronation of King Edward VII as Emperor of India.
Coronation Street
1965 | 30 mins
Ena Sharples vs. Elsie Tanner in the great Mancunian soap.
Cosmopolitan London
1924 | 13 mins
Discover a 'hidden' London of the 1920s.
Count Dracula
1977 | 150 mins
Be seduced by Louis Jourdan as Stoker's suave Count in the BBC's 1970s epic.
Countdown
1982 | 25 mins
The long-running gameshow cuts its teeth. Will this week's Countdown Conundrum be crucial?
The Countrywomen
1941 | 14 mins
Jam and Jerusalem - the Women's Institute goes to war.
Coves and Caves
1920 | 12 mins
Magical travelogue of Cornwall from the director of The Open Road.
The Crane
1992 | 15 mins
And introducing... Jude Law!
Craster Family Films
1933 | 71 mins
Regal Rajasthan and the Craster family at play.
Crewe Hospital Procession and Pageant
1907 | 11 mins
Blackface performers, cross-dressers and dancing bears in Crewe.
Cricket
1951 | 18 mins
The sweet sound of leather on willow.
Crossing the Great Sagrada
1924 | 15 mins
Three intrepid explorers embark on a journey to Sagrada in this humorous spoof travelogue.
The Crying Game
1992 | 106 mins
A relationship between an IRA member and an executed man's girlfriend leads to at least one famous twist in the tale...
Cubs
2006 | 10 mins
A very cunning twist on a very British sport.
Cumbernauld, Town for Tomorrow
1970 | 8 mins
Colourful 1970s promo for the postwar Scottish 'utopia' and its infamous town centre.
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.
Cuttack Leper Asylum
1930 | 3 mins
Amateur film featuring scenes at the leper colony.
Dad's Army
1970 | 29 mins
Britain's 'last line of defence' at their best.
Daisy Doodad's Dial
1914 | 6 mins
A face-pulling competition between husband and wife - can Daisy pull it off?
Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
1966 | 84 mins
Exterminate! Can Dr. Who and Bernard Cribbins save the Earth?
Dance Festival
1969 | 22 mins
What is a 20 foot inflatable phallus doing at the Roundhouse?
Dance Lexie Dance
1996 | 15 mins
Billy Elliot meets Riverdance.
Dance of the Harvest
1935 | 8 mins
Life in rural Sri Lanka.
Daphne du Maurier - A Loving Spirit
1997 | 60 mins
Documentary marking the launch of the du Maurier Festival in Fowey, Cornwall.
Daphne du Maurier - The Loving Spirit
1993 | 52 mins
Documentary shedding light on the author's complex relationships with men and women.
Darling, Do You Love Me?
1968 | 3 mins
Germaine Greer gets amorous.
David
1951 | 36 mins
The life of a Welsh miner, from pits to poetry.
A Day in the Hayfields
1904 | 3 mins
An English idyll, or back-breaking toil for the workers?
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.
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.
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.
Dear Phone
1976 | 17 mins
Cast your minds back to the time before the mobile phone... Peter Greenaway on the bright red phone box.
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.
Deferred Payment
1929 | 22 mins
A turbulent story of sea, sailors and syphilis…
Delhi
1938 | 10 mins
Delhi as city of the future.
Delhi 1946
1946 | 10 mins
Amateur 8mm film shot in the Indian capital.
Delhi Durbar
1911 | 16 mins
Epic footage of the 1911 Delhi Durbar.
Desmond's
1989 | 24 mins
The lives of Peckham barber shop proprietor Desmond Ambrose, his wife Sheila, three children and assorted locals and regulars.
A Desperate Case
1958 | 10 mins
How not to pack your suitcase - a guide from British Transport Films.
Destiny
1978 | 105 mins
A West Midlands by-election arouses strong feelings when an extreme right wing party begins to win support.
The Development of the English Town
1942 | 17 mins
Quirky educational film promoting the importance of intelligent town planning.
A Diary for Timothy
1946 | 38 mins
What does the future hold for Timothy, born on the fifth anniversary of the start of WWII?
Dilip
1972 | 25 mins
The story of Dilip Kumar, a young man with leprosy.
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988 | 84 mins
A wedding and a christening evoke powerful memories for a working-class Liverpool family.
District Officer
1945 | 12 mins
A window on to the bureaucratic world of the Indian Civil Service.
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?'
Don't Be Like Brenda!
1973 | 10 mins
Brenda makes a mistake and it's clearly all her own fault...
Don't Be Silly
1979 | 75 mins
A middle-class wife tries to cope with her abusive husband.
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.
Dracula
1958 | 82 mins
Lee and Cushing battle it out in Hammer's landmark adaptation, newly restored by the BFI.
Dracula
2006 | 90 mins
A blood-curdling Christmas special and the most recent TV reworking of Stoker's novel.
Dracula (Mystery & Imagination)
1968 | 80 mins
Denholm Elliott stars in this effective small screen adaptation from 1968.
Dracula (Nightmare: The Birth of Horror)
1996 | 50 mins
Christopher Frayling examines the many sources that inspired Stoker to pen his immortal novel.
Dracula (South Bank Show)
1993 | 50 mins
Melvyn Bragg profiles Bram Stoker and explores the legacy of his most famous work.
Dread Beat An' Blood
1978 | 45 mins
Poetry and politics - Linton Kwesi Johnson in London.
Dream House
1953 | 3 mins
Meena Kumari and Ashok Kumar extol the virtues of Dunlopillo.
The Dream of Gerontius
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.
Drifters
1929 | 60 mins
The story of the North Sea herring fisheries, filmed at Derwick, in the Shetlands, Lowestoft and Yarmouth.
Drinking for England
1998 | 50 mins
A national pastime exposed - Britain's turbulent relationship with the bottle.
The Drum
1937 | 104 mins
Controversial flagwaver starring Sabu as a young prince loyal to the Raj.
The Duke of Connaught’s Indian Tour
1921 | 3 mins
The Duke goes hunting.
E. H. Hunt's amateur films of the Rafai Fakirs
1929 | 8 mins
An amateur record of the self-mutilation of fakirs in Hyderabad.
Early Struggles
1976 | 60 mins
A young, single father (Paul Nicholas) struggles to bring up his baby. Stephen Frears directs.
East is East
1917 | 70 mins
A Cockney girl unexpectedly inherits a fortune, but will she forget about her old East End sweetheart?
EastEnders
1987 | 30 mins
Dot and Ethel reminisce about good times and bad.
Eastenders
1990 | 30 mins
The Tavernier family moves into Albert Square.
Eating High
1966 | 9 mins
Cordon bleu at the top of the Post Office (BT) Tower.
Echoes of the Raj
2000 | 50 mins
Personal testimonies and home movies tell the story of the last years of the Raj.
Edna, The Inebriate Woman
1971 | 90 mins
A BAFTA-winning Patricia Hayes stars as a homeless drunk.
Edward II
1971 | 125 mins
Ian McKellen stars in Marlowe's masterpiece.
Eleanor
1974 | 65 mins
'Birds of a Feather''s Pauline Quirke stars as a misfit at a girls' day school.
The Elephant Boy
1937 | 84 mins
Sabu makes his debut in this adventure, based on a story by Rudyard Kipling.
The Elephant Man
1980 | 124 mins
Poignant, humanist true-life tale of the man who was displayed as a freak in Victorian London.
The Elephant Will Never Forget
1953 | 10 mins
A fond and tearful farewell to London's trams.
Elgar
1962 | 55 mins
Ken Russell's rhapsodic docu-drama about the great British composer.
Elgar - Fantasy on a Composer on a Bicycle
2002 | 50 mins
Ken Russell revisits Elgar's work forty years after his original film, this time for 'The South Bank Show'.
Elgar and Shaw
1932 | 12 mins
Home movie footage of Elgar, literary and musical friends and, of course, his dogs.
Elgar's Tenth Muse
1996 | 50 mins
Drama about the ageing Elgar's brief but intoxicating relationship with a young violinist.
Elmina's Kitchen
2004 | 90 mins
Kwame Kwei-Armah's Hackney-set story of gun crime, racism and a difficult father-son relationship.
Elphida
1987 | 60 mins
Angela Wynter stars as a young woman who needs to make major changes in her life.
Emily Brontë at Haworth - A Personal Impression
1973 | 25 mins
Beryl Bainbridge reflects on the triumphs and tragedies which shaped the novelist's short life.
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.
Empire Road
1978 | 28 mins
Day-to-day life among the West Indian community living in Birmingham's Empire Road
The Encyclopaedist
1961 | 30 mins
A pushy encyclopaedia salesman attempts to flog his wares in this TV drama written by John Mortimer.
England Home and Beauty
1976 | 37 mins
Whimsical evocation of our 1930s design heyday.
The Eton Wall Game
1921 | 1 mins
A young George Orwell takes part in an Eton institution - the notoriously perplexing Wall Game.
Every Day
1929 | 17 mins
Experimental day in the life of London's office workers.
Every Day Except Christmas
1957 | 40 mins
12 hours in the life of Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market.
Everyday Something
2001 | 14 mins
A Home Truths-style guide to British eccentricity narrated by John Peel.
Expresso Bongo
1960 | 111 mins
Cliff Richard gyrates his way through Soho's strip clubs and coffee bars.
The F***ing Fulfords
2004 | 60 mins
Political incorrectness gone mad in a dilapidated Devon mansion.
Fable
1965 | 75 mins
Controversial TV drama imagining Britain under black rule.
The Face of Britain
1935 | 18 mins
How industrialisation has shaped and changed our landscape.
Face to Face: Derek Jarman
1993 | 40 mins
Derek Jarman, the great queer artist, discusses his life and work.
Factory - Schweppes Tonic Water Advert
1959 | 1 mins
Benny Hill does his bit for the tonic water industry.
Facts and Fancies
1951 | 17 mins
Joan Collins gets to grips with the by-products of coal in her first screen appearance.
Fair City of Udaipur
1934 | 9 mins
A tourist's-eye view of 'the Venice of the East'.
Fairy of the Phone
1936 | 10 mins
A delirious ode to page 5 of the telephone directory, conducted by the fairy of the phone.
The Family Way
1966 | 110 mins
Jenny and Arthur are unable to consummate their marriage. Tongues wag...
The Far Pavilions
1984 | 315 mins
'Gone With the Wind', India-style.
Fat Man on a Bicycle
1914 | 3 mins
Pimple attempts to teach a large friend to ride a bicycle, with disastrous results.
Father Christmas Union
1972 | 10 mins
The unions are revolting and Santa goes on strike.
Fatty Issues
1990 | 5 mins
A wavering weight-watcher counts the calories.
Festival View '87 with Angela Carter
1987 | 50 mins
Angela Carter is your guide to the 1987 Edinburgh Festival.
Fiddlers All: A Musical Test for Violin Lovers
1941 | 9 mins
Fiddle fans pay attention - can you name that tune?
The Fight Against Slavery
1975 | 300 mins
Major BBC dramatised documentary series about Britain's role in the slave trade.
Films of E.J. Montgomery
1928 | 26 mins
An often playful record of the lives and duties of Lord and Lady Stephenson.
Fingersmith
2005 | 60 mins
In the 1860s, a female pickpocket and an heiress enter into a relationship - but is the whole thing a con?
Finisterre
2003 | 57 mins
Snapshots of contemporary London form a vibrant backdrop to Saint Etienne's 2002 album.
Fires Were Started
1943 | 63 mins
Spend an eventful day and night with the National Fire Service during the Blitz of 1940-41.
Fireworks Revisited
1994 | 9 mins
A sexy, girlie twist on Kenneth Anger's homoerotic classic, 'Fireworks'.
First a Girl
1935 | 93 mins
A hard-up girl pretends to be a female impersonator to make ends meet.
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.
Five Inch Bather
1942 | 1 mins
A naked Richard Massingham extols the virtues of bathwater conservation.
Five Towns
1947 | 26 mins
Life and work in the Staffordshire Potteries.
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.
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...
Flying The Foam and Some Fancy Diving
1906 | 2 mins
'Professor' Reddish demonstrates how to dive from Brighton Pier whilst riding a bicycle.
A Foot-Hill Town
1937 | 9 mins
Darjeeling - a portrait of the Raj hill station made for schools.
Framed Youth: Revenge of the Teenage Perverts
1983 | 50 mins
Queer teens discuss their experiences in Thatcher's Britain.
From High Heels to Sensible Shoes
1997 | 30 mins
Former TV presenter Jackie Forster discusses the day that changed her life - when she had her first lesbian affair.
From the Four Corners
1941 | 15 mins
Why would Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders risk their lives for Britain?
The Fugitive Futurist: A Q-riosity by 'Q'
1924 | 11 mins
An oddball inventor startles Londoners with images of the city's future.
The Funeral of Queen Victoria
1901 | 8 mins
The funeral of Britain's longest-reigning monarch.
Gallivant
1996 | 100 mins
A tour of Britain's coastline, with the director's grandmother and daughter in tow.
The Games
2007 | 15 mins
A surreal take on East London's Olympian future.
Gangsters
1975 | 110 mins
The French Connection comes to Birmingham.
Gangsters (series)
1976 | 50 mins
Paul Barber stars in the first episode of the urban western set in Birmingham.
Gardens of the Orient
1936 | 10 mins
The gardens here are tea gardens, and the 'Orient' is India and Sri Lanka.
Gay Life
1981 | 30 mins
British gay men's lives from the '30s to the '50s.
Gaytime TV
1995 | 35 mins
The gay magazine show cuts its teeth, presented by Rhona Cameron and Bert Tyler-Moore.
General Sahib
1976 | 50 mins
A portrait of Major General Bakhshi, former chairman of the charity Raphael.
Ginger Nutt’s Christmas Circus
1949 | 7 mins
Disney-inspired animated mayhem at the circus.
Girl
1974 | 35 mins
Alison Steadman stars as a young army recruit.
Glimpses of India
1929 | 15 mins
Indian travelogue featuring the famous sights and rural life.
Go Go Go Said the Bird
1966 | 55 mins
A trip through Swinging London with Marianne Faithfull, David Hockney, Twiggy and co.
The Go-Between
1971 | 116 mins
Sex, class and cricket - the past as a not-so-foreign country.
God's Chillun
1938 | 9 mins
The history of the West Indies' slave trade, and the islands' development since emancipation.
Going Shopping with Elizabeth Allan: Harrods Shopping Guide
1955 | 8 mins
Brandy, teabags and 'Tupperware' are all on offer in London's most famous store.
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.
Good Manners
1937 | 10 mins
Members of the Roston Youth Club debate the subject of good manners.
Goodness Gracious Me
1998 | 30 mins
Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar and friends go for an English...
Gorrie Family Personal Films
1931 | 80 mins
The Gorrie family at home in Dehra Dun and on expedition in the Himalaya.
The Great Crusade: The Story of a Million Homes
1936 | 17 mins
Patriotism and production lines: J.B. Priestley joins the 'crusade' for better housing.
Groove on a Stanley Knife
1997 | 41 mins
Two girls - a lesbian and a homophobe - go on the run from crack-dealers.
Grove Carnival
1981 | 19 mins
Kaleidoscopic celebration of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival.
Growing Girls
1951 | 12 mins
Mary discovers the minefield that it puberty.
Gurkhas and Shillong Scenery
1930 | 13 mins
The festival of Dashian is celebrated - including scenes of animal sacrifice.
Hancock's Half-Hour
1959 | 29 mins
Can Tony and Sid save 23 Railway Cuttings?
Hanif Kureishi (Guardian Interview) AUDIO ONLY
1999 | mins
Kureishi discusses his work at the NFT.
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.
Hanif Kureishi - The South Bank Show
2003 | 48 mins
South Bank Show profile of the provocative writer.
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.
The Heart Within
1957 | 59 mins
A West Indian dockworker is suspected of the murder of a compatriot.
Henry V
1944 | 127 mins
Shakespeare as WWII propaganda.
Hidden City
1987 | 108 mins
Stephen Poliakoff's unnerving thriller uncovers a dark, unseen side of the capital.
High Living
1968 | 10 mins
The only way is up: the 1960s' answer to Britain's booming population.
Hillmen Go to War
1944 | 10 mins
The contribution of the people of the Kullu Valley to the war effort.
Hindle Wakes
1927 | 116 mins
Lancashire's cotton workers decamp to Blackpool for their annual taste of freedom.
Hints and Hobbies (No. 1)
1926 | 14 mins
Want to know more about Persian cats, cardboard vases and treating fractured limbs?
Hints and Hobbies (No. 11)
1926 | 14 mins
Jiu-jitsu for ladies, how to get ink off a white apron and other life essentials.
Hints and Hobbies (No. 7)
1926 | 14 mins
How to remove dirt from your finest stole and enthral your guests with a few sugarlumps.
A Hole in Babylon
1979 | 70 mins
Dramatisation of the 1975 Spaghetti House Siege.
Holiday
1957 | 18 mins
The kiss-me-quick pleasures of saucy Blackpool.
The Holly and the Ivy
1952 | 83 mins
An unfairly neglected Christmas tale starring Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson.
The Home Movies of T. Burtt
1933 | 20 mins
Lahore, Rajasthan and Simla feature in Burtt's home movies.
Homes for All
1946 | 20 mins
A plug for the post-war housing policy of a new Labour government.
Homes for the People
1945 | 23 mins
Housewives of Britain offer a weary insight into the dire state of their homes.
Hope and Glory
1984 | 79 mins
The life, times and music of Sir Edward Elgar.
The Horror of Darkness
1965 | 62 mins
A couple's relationship is disturbed by the arrival of the man's old college friend.
The Horsey Mail
1938 | 10 mins
Will floods scupper the duties of two Norfolk postmen?
Hot Summer Night
1959 | 90 mins
Racism in a white, working-class family - later re-made as 'Flame in the Streets'.
The House in Which You Live
1947 | 17 mins
Don't mention the War: a reassuring architectural tour of British homes past, present and future.
Housing Problems
1935 | 13 mins
Inhabitants of 1930s slums voice their grievances, experiences and hopes.
How a Bicycle is Made
1945 | 14 mins
The recipe for the perfect bike.
How to Make a Million From Slavery
2005 | 60 mins
Planter Henry Lascelles and his ambition to make 'factory ships' for transporting slaves.
How to Tell
1935 | 16 mins
How to explain the birds and the bees - and STDs - to your children.
Hoxton... Saturday, July 3rd, Britannia Theatre
1920 | 6 mins
A very busy Saturday on Old Street.
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.
Hull Fair No. 2
1902 | 2 mins
Two black boxers challenge fair-goers to a bout in the ring.
Hunter Family Films
1928 | 57 mins
India through the idiosyncratic eyes of the Hunter family.
I Think They Call Him John
1964 | 28 mins
Quietly powerful documentary about John, a retired pensioner living alone in his London flat.
I'm British But...
1989 | 30 mins
Britain beats to the sound of Bhangra and Bangla.
The Imitation Game
1980 | 95 mins
A young middle-class woman joins the Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII.
The Important Thing is Love
1971 | 50 mins
The invisible history of Britain's lesbians.
In Gear
1967 | 9 mins
The Sixties swing into Carnaby Street and the King's Road.
In Rural Maharashtra
1940 | 12 mins
Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant caulifowers...
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.
In Search of Emily Brontë
2003 | 24 mins
Chris Smith on the trail of the 'Mystic of the Moors'.
In Search of Geordie
1975 | 25 mins
What makes a Geordie?
Inappropriate Behaviour
1987 | 78 mins
A female psychiatrist develops feelings towards a schoolgirl patient.
India
1929 | 16 mins
Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi.
Indian Background
1946 | 9 mins
Progress vs. tradition in India.
The Informer
1929 | 81 mins
Dublin-set drama about an IRA informer.
The Irresponsibles
1929 | 40 mins
A no-nonsense warning of the perils of gonorrhoea and syphilis.
Island People
1940 | 10 mins
The British way of life at the dawn of the 1940s.
Island Race
1996 | 30 mins
The BNP strikes in Tower Hamlets.
It Ain't Half Racist Mum
1979 | 30 mins
The pervasive racism of British TV in the '70s is exposed.
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.
It's Not Unusual: A Lesbian and Gay History
1997 | 49 mins
A history of homosexuality in Britain from 1920 to 1996.
Jack Hylton Presents: The Crazy Gang
1956 | 55 mins
The Crazy Gang at the Victoria Palace - British humour from another era.
Jack the Ripper
1963 | 3 mins
Screaming Lord Sutch performs a song of alarmingly questionable taste.
Jacqueline du Pré 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.
Jacqueline du Pré Masterclass
1979 | 35 mins
Cellist Jacqueline du Pré gives a masterclass on the Elgar Cello Concerto.
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.
Jewel in the Crown
1984 | 105 mins
Sex, class and scandal in the final days of the Raj.
Jim Corbett Personal Films
1929 | 61 mins
Records of North India's wildlife - both living and dead - by the famous hunter and conservationist.
Johnny Go Home
1975 | 100 mins
Award-winning documentary following the lives of young homeless children in London.
Just Another Saturday
1975 | 75 mins
One young man's long day as participant and bystander in the Protestant Orange day parades of Glasgow 1975.
Kenneth Williams: Comic Roots
1983 | 30 mins
Kenneth Williams takes us on a very personal stroll around the city he called home.
The Kenny Everett Television Show
1981 | 30 mins
The ethos of punk is alive and well in Kenny Everett's appropriately disrespectful hands.
Kensal House
1937 | 11 mins
A visionary community powered by the miracle of gas.
Kensington Calling!
1930 | 8 mins
Squalid conditions in Kensington - and a bid for a brighter future.
Kes
1969 | 113 mins
A boy and his kestrel - childhood has rarely been more potently captured.
Kindly Leave the Raj
1969 | 56 mins
The Raj in the style of 'Oh What a Lovely War!'
The Kiss in the Tunnel
1899 | 1 mins
Amorous Victorians indulge in illicit smooching.
Kisses at Fifty
1973 | 70 mins
A middle-aged man's fling with a barmaid threatens the stability of his family.
The Knowledge
1979 | 89 mins
Learner taxi drivers attempt to master 'the knowledge' of London's streets.
Ladies on Bicycles
1899 | 1 mins
Victorian ladies show off their slalom cycling skills.
The Ladykillers
1955 | 97 mins
Brilliant black comedy of armed robbers, murder and a Boccherini string quintet.
Lambeth Marsh
2001 | 12 mins
A study of the London Borough of Lambeth, inspired by a William Blake poem.
Land of Promise
1946 | 65 mins
Film 'argument' on the past, present and future of British housing.
The Lane
1990 | 270 mins
6-part series about the communities, characters and hidden corners of Brick Lane and Spitalfields.
The Last of England
1987 | 88 mins
Derek Jarman's dark, poetic vision of a city and a country brought to its knees.
Learning About Sex
1977 | 25 mins
Sex ed in the '70s.
Leeds - United!
1974 | 117 mins
Play for Today at its angriest - exploited factory workers literally strike back.
The Lenny Henry Show
1984 | 29 mins
A showcase for comedian Lenny Henry, featuring a mix of stand up monologues, sketches and spoof songs.
Leo the Last
1969 | 104 mins
John Boorman's surreal vision of culture clash in Notting Hill.
Les Bicyclettes de Belsize
1968 | 29 mins
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Hampstead-style.
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.
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.
The Lie
1970 | 90 mins
Ingmar Bergman dissects a marriage breakdown.
A Life Apart
1977 | 25 mins
An examination of the charity Raphael's work with people living with leprosy.
Life in Hunza
1937 | 8 mins
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern Areas of Pakistan.
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Lights and Shades on the Bostock Circus Farm
1911 | 5 mins
A tumultuous and tragic day on the Bostock Circus Farm.
The Line of Beauty
2006 | 59 mins
Sex, drugs and Mrs. Thatcher.
Linger
1995 | 15 mins
A postcard from an old friend reminds a woman of the night they drunkenly made love.
Listen to Britain
1942 | 19 mins
The sounds of the Home Front - with appearances from Dame Myra Hess, Flanagan and Allen and the Queen Mother.
Little Britain
2004 | 30 mins
Are Vicky Pollard and Daffyd Thomas the voices of 21st century Britain?
Living at Thamesmead
1974 | 27 mins
Fly-on-the-wall tour of the south-east London estate.
Living Statistic
2005 | 11 mins
The bid by Weymouth residents to save the Kachepa family from deportation.
Lizzie Dripping
1973 | 80 mins
Lizzie Dripping's first encounters with the witch...
Lizzie Dripping Again
1975 | 100 mins
The second series of Lizzie Dripping from 1975.
Lobsters
1936 | 16 mins
The king of crustaceans gets his own movie.
Local Hero
1983 | 106 mins
Residents of an idyllic Scottish coastal village see dollar signs when a US oil company tries to move in.
Lockerbie: A Night Remembered
1998 | 60 mins
The terrorist attack on Pan Am Flight 103 - killing 270 people and devastating a community.
Lol: A Bona Queen of Fabularity
1981 | 40 mins
The life and times of a London drag queen.
Lola - Crown Court
1976 | 72 mins
A gay transvestite comes under fire in this 3-parter from 'Crown Court'.
London
1994 | 85 mins
Patrick Keiller's joyously idiosyncratic chronicle of a year in the life of the capital.
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.
The London Nobody Knows
1967 | 48 mins
A stroll with James Mason around the more eccentric corners of the capital.
London Orbital
2002 | 76 mins
Iain Sinclair and Chris Petit's visionary film about the world's largest by-pass - the M25.
The London Story
1986 | 15 mins
Political musical comedy set against a backdrop of famous London locations.
London Street Scenes - Trafalgar Square
1910 | 1 mins
A 180 degree panorama of Trafalgar Square in 1910.
London Street Scenes c1920s
1920 | 4 mins
A busy, bustling celebration of the capital.
London Town
1946 | 93 mins
Glorious, camp Technicolor treat or failed London musical?
The Long Distance Piano Player
1970 | 80 mins
The Kinks' Ray Davies stars as a pianist who embarks on a 4-day musical marathon.
The Long Good Friday
1979 | 114 mins
Helen Mirren and Bob Hoskins call the shots in the great East End gangster epic.
Lord Willingdon in India
1930 | 12 mins
Home movie of the Viceroy of India.
The Lost Language of Cranes
1992 | 87 mins
Nature or nurture? A father and son discover that they have something in common.
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.
Love on Leave
1940 | 32 mins
Wayward women, lonely soldiers and a visit to the V.D. clinic.
Love Thy Neighbour
1971 | 26 mins
The hugely popular - but deeply racist - '70s sitcom starring Rudolph Walker and Nina Baden-Semper.
Lunch-Hour
1933 | 8 mins
London at lunchtime.
The Lure of Crooning Water
1920 | 105 mins
Sun-dappled pastoral romance starring the golden couple of '20s British cinema.
Lust for a Vampire
1970 | 95 mins
Hammer horror with a sapphic twist.
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.
Made in Huddersfield
1985 | 90 mins
A look at the Second Wave of punk that hit the North of England in the 1980s.
The Magic Toyshop
1987 | 107 mins
'80s TV adaptation of Angela Carter's 1967 magical-realist novel, rarely seen since its first broadcast.
Magnus Family in India
1927 | 13 mins
Home movie footage of the Magnus family.
Maharajah of Jodhpur - Personal Films
1928 | 260 mins
See India from a royal perspective with these home movie records of princely power and sumptuous ceremony.
Mahatma Gandhi - Noakhali March
1946 | 18 mins
Rarely seen footage of Gandhi filmed by his great nephew, Kanu.
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.
Making Christmas Crackers
1910 | 6 mins
Factory workers demonstrate the manufacture of crackers, and a family receives a Christmas surprise.
Making Fashion
1938 | 15 mins
'30s models strut their stuff on the Hartnell catwalk.
A Man From the Sun
1956 | 58 mins
One of the earliest TV dramas to exlore the lives of newly-arrived West Indians in Britain.
Manifesto for Love
2003 | 6 mins
An exploration of the meaning of love - accompanied by Dusty Springfield.
Master of the King's Musik
1931 | 3 mins
Elgar conducts Land of Hope and Glory.
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978 | 65 mins
A day in the life of schoolteacher, from an unrequited crush on a male student to discussing lesbianism with Thora Hird.
Meantime
1983 | 110 mins
Tim Roth and Gary Oldman star as troubled Londoners in Mike Leigh's made-for-TV favourite.
Meatdaze
1968 | 10 mins
Pop art extravaganza.
Metro-Land
1973 | 50 mins
John Betjeman examines the culture and spirit of Metro-Land - the outer reaches of the Metropolitan Railway.
Michael and Liam
1979 | 52 mins
A suicidal teen and a camp gay youth strike up an unlikely rapport.
Mile End Purgatorio
1991 | 1 mins
All the signs point to the Mile End Road.
Minder
1984 | 50 mins
Arthur Daley has difficulty tracking down a debt in Brick Lane.
Miners Leaving Pendlebury CollieryMiners Leaving Pendlebury Colliery
1901 | 1 mins
A young black miner is among the crowd leaving Pendlebury Colliery, Salford.
Mining Review
1954 | 10 mins
Ballet dancing miners and the crowning of the 'Coal Queen'.
Mixed Marriages
1958 | 15 mins
Racism and mixed-race relationships.
Monday Morning
1958 | 10 mins
Crouch End awakes.
Monique
1969 | 87 mins
Can a saucy French au pair spice up the love life of a married couple? She can indeed.
The Monster of Highgate Ponds
1960 | 59 mins
There's a monster on the loose in Highgate! 'Godzilla' for the under-9s.
Monty Python's Flying Circus
1970 | 30 mins
Silly voices, comedy Nazis, upper class twits...
Morris Dancing at Berkhamsted
1950 | 2 mins
A noble English tradition is preserved in Hertfordshire.
A Mountain Nurse
1977 | 26 mins
Treating tuberculosis in the Himalayan foothills.
Mr. English at Home
1940 | 27 mins
A day in the life of the 'typical' English family.
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985 | 97 mins
Inter-racial love on the tumble dryers.
My Night with Reg
1997 | 105 mins
Love in the time of AIDS - from the writer of 'Clapham Junction'.
Mystery of Marriage, The
1932 | 32 mins
A comparison of the mating rituals of humans, animals and plants unlocks the secrets of marriage.
Naked - As Nature Intended
1961 | 60 mins
Gratuitous nudity masquerading as a South West travelogue.
The Naked Civil Servant
1975 | 78 mins
A BAFTA-winning John Hurt portrays the great, empowering Quentin Crisp.
Native Life in Ceylon
1909 | 8 mins
Street scenes, elephants and 'native magic'.
A Native Street in India
1906 | 2 mins
A crowded street scene in an unidentified city.
The Negro Next Door
1965 | 30 mins
The white residents of a Leeds suburb express their thoughts on their new black neighbours.
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.
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.
New Styles of Architecture
1993 | 26 mins
Alan Bennett surveys the architectural landscape of post-WWI Britain.
New Towns for Old
1942 | 7 mins
Bulldozers compete with bombers to clear the slums in Sheffield.
Nice Time
1957 | 17 mins
Has Piccadilly Circus ever looked so bleak?
Night Mail
1936 | 23 mins
London to Scotland by train in the company of Benjamin Britten and W. H. Auden.
Nighthawks
1978 | 109 mins
A schoolteacher leads a secret life, cruising London's gay bars by night.
No Problem!
1983 | 30 mins
An introduction to the comic world of Willesden's Powell family.
The North West Frontier
1928 | 13 mins
A portrait of Peshawar and life on the borders with Afghanistan.
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.
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.
Noted Eel and Pie Houses
1975 | 45 mins
Fascinating social history of that great London delicacy - the jellied eel.
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.
Nude Woman by Waterfall
1920 | 12 mins
A woman poses - in and out of her diaphanous shift.
Nuts in May
1976 | 85 mins
A new age couple try to get back to nature - but does nature want them back?
Nyimsao and Kheseto: A Tale of the Naga Hills
1928 | 82 mins
Ethnographic feature film following two headhunters of the Naga tribes in north-eastern India.
O Dreamland
1953 | 11 mins
The dubious delights of a Margate funfair.
O Fat White Woman
1971 | 70 mins
The wife of a sadistic headmaster is forced to face the truth about her marriage.
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.
Odeon Cinema Club
1943 | 1 mins
Early karaoke from the Odeon National Cinema Club. Singalong with the bouncing ball...
Off the Page: Angela Carter
1987 | 23 mins
The Magic Toyshop author reads from her work and admits that writing 'chose' her - not the other way around.
The Office
2001 | 30 mins
David Brent, Slough's favourite son, entertains the nation.
Old London Street Scenes
1903 | 3 mins
Traffic congestion in Edwardian London.
Oliver Strachey in Drag
1930 | 1 mins
The Bloomsbury set are at it again...
Oliver Twist
1948 | 116 mins
Masterful adaptation of Dickens' classic set on the sordid streets of 1830s London.
On a Cold and Frosty Morning
1969 | 17 mins
The activities of the Indian charity, Raphael.
On Ilkla' Moor Baht At
1921 | 14 mins
The Yorkshire Dales - from Ilkley to Hubberholme.
On the Black Hill
1987 | 117 mins
Adaptation of Bruce Chatwin's tale of twin brothers battling the elements - and each other.
On the Tracks of the Wild Otter
1982 | 50 mins
The lives of otters: surveillance in the Shetland Isles.
One Family
1930 | 49 mins
A schoolboy, a Christmas pudding and a bizarre portrait of the British Empire.
One in Five
1983 | 53 mins
Endearingly right-on concoction bringing together lesbians and gay men for dancing and debate.
One Potato, Two Potato
1957 | 23 mins
Children's games played out on the streets of London.
Only Connect
1979 | 49 mins
Gay lives connect across a century in Noel Greig and Drew Griffiths' moving drama.
Only Fools and Horses
1982 | 30 mins
Join the hapless Trotters of Nelson Mandela House, Peckham, for an impromptu tour of London.
The Only Way
1926 | 130 mins
Legendary actor-manager John Martin-Harvey leads as the tragic hero in this version of Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
The Open Road
1927 | 60 mins
An epic trip across Britain filmed in remarkable early colour.
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.
The Other Woman
1976 | 70 mins
An activist lesbian artist embarks on an affair with a young woman, with dramtic repercussions for all concerned.
The Otter
1915 | 8 mins
Marvel at an otter from the time of WWI in this early nature film.
Out on Tuesday
1989 | 53 mins
Can homosexuality be 'promoted', and will playing gay ruin your career?
Oyster Fishing at Whitstable, England
1920 | 6 mins
The harvest and consumption of everyone's favourite bivalve.
Panorama of Calcutta
1899 | 1 mins
The Calcutta ghats - or are they?
Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram
1901 | 1 mins
A tram ride through Ealing at its most appealing.
A Passage to England
1975 | 85 mins
Two British dockers are made an offer they may do well to refuse. From the director of 'The Long Good Friday'.
Passport to Pimlico
1949 | 84 mins
Pimlico fights for independence from Britain after the discovery of an ancient treaty.
The Peaches
1964 | 15 mins
A very beautiful, very clever girl adores peaches, but when she falls in love the world's peaches start to wither...
Peeping Tom
1960 | 101 mins
Voyeurism, serial murder and child abuse... Powell's psychological thriller has lost none of its power to shock.
Penda's Fen
1974 | 90 mins
English pagan myths and burgeoning sexuality in the Malverns.
People at No.19, The
1949 | 18 mins
Ministry of Health film highlighting the menace of venereal disease and its impact on the health of the nation.
The Perfect Home
2006 | 120 mins
A frustrated Alain de Botton goes in search of architectural inspiration...outside Britain.
Peter Ackroyd's London
2004 | 144 mins
How has London survived over the centuries? 3-part series from the great chronicler of the capital.
Petticoat Lane
1903 | 2 mins
Sunday morning in the East End market.
Piccadilly
1929 | 100 mins
The glitter of Jazz Age clubland meets the Far East (of London).
Pig-Heart Boy
1999 | 150 mins
A boy with months to live decides to have a life-saving operation: a transplant with the heart of a pig.
Pimple's Battle of Waterloo
1913 | 8 mins
Pythonesque parody of Waterloo, Napoleon and the French...
The Planned Home
1937 | 27 mins
Blocks of flats offer a new future for 1930s working class families.
The Pleasure Garden
1952 | 38 mins
There's magic in the ruins of Crystal Palace - and Hattie Jacques is the fairy queen!
Polish Your Shoes
2003 | 11 mins
The life of a Cockney patriarch is remembered by his children.
Pool of London
1950 | 85 mins
Crime drama set in London's Docklands.
Post Haste
1943 | 1 mins
Post early for Christmas, the Richard Massingham way.
Postal Delivery
1971 | 10 mins
Posting a letter can be a dangerous game.
Pressure
1975 | 120 mins
Britain's first black feature presents a Notting Hill that's a far cry from the world of Hugh Grant.
Priest
1994 | 105 mins
A catholic priest is forced out of the closet, to the shock of his congregation.
Priestley and Friends at Home
1932 | 8 mins
J.B. Priestley, Elgar and famous friends.
Primitive London
1965 | 84 mins
Sleazy sexploitation - from Soho strippers to Jack the Ripper.
Proud City: A Plan for London
1946 | 24 mins
A fresh start for the greatest city in the world.
The Proud Valley
1940 | 77 mins
Paul Robeson stars as an African-American coal miner 'adopted' by a Welsh mining community.
A Punjab Village
1925 | 13 mins
Agriculture, irrigation, washing, weaving, grinding... Everyday village life.
Punk and the Pistols
1995 | 95 mins
Never mind the bollocks, here's the story of the Sex Pistols.
Punk Can Take It
1979 | 19 mins
A punk parody of wartime propaganda featuring the UK Subs.
Punk Rock
1976 | 30 mins
Janet Street-Porter meets The Sex Pistols.
Punk Rock
1977 | 50 mins
Punk - blessing or scourge? Let's have a heated debate!
Punk Rock Magazines
1977 | 30 mins
Punk fanzines get the Janet Street-Porter treatment.
A Queen is Crowned
1953 | 44 mins
Elizabeth II's big day - this time in Technicolor.
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
1897 | 14 mins
Celebrations of Queen Victoria's sixtieth year on the throne.
The Queen’s Christmas Day Broadcast 1957
1957 | 14 mins
50 years of change and continuity reflected in the very first televised Queen's Speech.
Queer As Folk
1999 | 50 mins
The opening episode of the trailblazing drama that follows the lives of three gay men in Manchester.
The Quetta Earthquake, May 31st 1935
1935 | 7 mins
The devastation wrought by one of South Asia's worst earthquakes.
Quite Unfit for Females
1921 | 2 mins
The Football Association proposes a ban on women players.
Rachel and the Roarettes
1985 | 42 mins
The world's first - and last - lesbian highway(wo)man musical.
The Railway Children
1970 | 108 mins
E. Nesbit's very British classic is brought to the big screen.
Rainy Day Women
1984 | 84 mins
Wartime tensions in a remote English village.
Raphael
1987 | 21 mins
This film about the Indian charity features a focus on Ava Vihar, the residential centre for people with learning disabilities.
The Rat
1925 | 97 mins
Matinee idol Ivor Novello shows his darker side as an enigmatic Parisian jewel thief.
Rebecca
1979 | 215 mins
Memorable four-part Du Maurier adaptation - a classic of late-'70s British TV.
Rebecca
1997 | 194 mins
Charles Dance and Emilia Fox star as the de Winters in this sumptuous 1997 adaptation in two parts.
Red Shift
1978 | 85 mins
A fantasy tale for adults from the author of 'The Owl Service'.
Relax
1991 | 25 mins
A man waits for the results of an HIV test, and retreats into fantasy.
A Respectable Trade
1998 | 240 mins
The wife of a Bristol shipping merchant strikes up a relationship with a slave under her supervision.
Return to Life
1960 | 29 mins
A family of refugees attempts to integrate into British life.
The Rise and Fall of Nellie Brown
1964 | 80 mins
Elisabeth Welch and Jamaican teen-singer Millie star in this festive twist on 'The Wizard of Oz'.
A Road in India
1938 | 10 mins
Headily romantic Technicolor portrait of India, photographed by Jack Cardiff.
The Road to Health
1938 | 12 mins
Animated moral fable designed to keep the British public on the ‘straight and narrow’.
Robin Redbreast
1970 | 75 mins
A woman visits her holiday home in the country, but begins to suspect the villagers may be planning a human sacrifice.
Robinson in Space
1997 | 82 mins
Seven trips across industrial England in search of Utopia... Patrick Keiller's sequel to his hugely successful London.
Rock Goes to College
1978 | 30 mins
Well, what a bummer - The Stranglers are unimpressed by their student-heavy audience.
The Rollicking Rajah
1914 | 3 mins
Politically incorrect comedy.
A Room with a View
1985 | 110 mins
From Florence to Surrey - middle class repression is liberated on a Tuscan hillside.
Rosebud
1991 | 14 mins
An erotic lesbian tale of voyeurism, power dressing and fantasy.
Rough Trade
1979 | 60 mins
The story of Rough Trade, the iconic punk music store at 130 Talbot Road.
The Royal Family
1969 | 110 mins
A year in the life of the Windsors.
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975 | 65 mins
John Mortimer's Old Bailey barrister makes his debut.
S.W.A.L.K. aka Melody
1970 | 107 mins
Mark Lester and Jack Wild star in a tale of young love at a Lambeth comprehensive.
Sam Goes Shopping
1939 | 6 mins
There's a fleeting appearance from a very young Terry-Thomas in this advert for the Co-op's wares.
Sambo and Two Girls
1911 | 22 mins
A young black man appears in what may be a dental health film.
Santa Claus
1898 | 1 mins
The man in the white beard brings magic to Victorian Britain.
Sapphire
1959 | 92 mins
Investigations into the mysterious murder of a young student reveal a world of racism and bigotry.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960 | 89 mins
Don't let the bastards grind you down! Albert Finney stars as the Nottingham rebel with a cause.
Say It With Flowers
1934 | 71 mins
Cockney musical featuring a a flower seller and Old Kent Road music hall.
The Scarlet Woman
1924 | 45 mins
Catholic fantasy starring Evelyn Waugh in an Andy Warhol fright wig.
Scenes at Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park Underground Stations
1931 | 7 mins
Magical, slightly surreal record of the London Underground.
Scrooge; or, Marley's Ghost
1901 | 4 mins
The earliest surviving Dickens adaptation: A Christmas Carol, condensed into 4 minutes.
Scum
1977 | 95 mins
Ray Winstone and David Threlfall star in banned Borstal drama.
Seacoal
1985 | 82 mins
The men and women who eke a living from collecting 'seacoal' on the Northumberland coast find their way of life under threat.
Seafood
2004 | 10 mins
Colin wants romance. Naveen wants sex. A tale of love, lust and unbearable frustration.
Season's Greetings
1986 | 110 mins
Biting Alan Ayckbourn drama about a disastrous family Christmas.
The Servant
1963 | 115 mins
The homoerotic power games between master and servant take centre stage in this Pinter adaptation.
Seven Days to Noon
1950 | 94 mins
London is at the mercy of a scientist threatening to detonate an atomic device...
Shadow in the Stream
1939 | 17 mins
Follow the adventures of Ottoline and her newborn otter cub Otto.
Shakespeare - Or Bust
1973 | 80 mins
Three miners embark on a pilgrimage to Stratford-on-Avon.
Share Thy Bread
1963 | 18 mins
The early years of the charity Raphael as described by founder Leonard Cheshire.
Shellshock Rock
1979 | 47 mins
Punk goes to Northern Ireland.
Shillong Scenes
1932 | 19 mins
Golf (among other things) in the Himalaya.
Shoot the Messenger
2006 | 90 mins
Blatantly racist or essential, provocative drama? Few recent TV films have created so much debate.
Shooting Stars
1928 | 80 mins
The British film industry turns the camera on itself in Anthony Asquith's virtuoso satire.
The Shovel
1953 | 16 mins
Everything you ever wanted to know about shovels but were afraid to ask.
The Sick Kitten
1903 | 1 mins
Two children nurse a feline patient.
Sidney Street Siege
1911 | 4 mins
Documentary footage of the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street.
Sidney's Chair
1995 | 21 mins
The arrival of film star Sidney Poitier in East London is a momentous event for a young boy and his friends.
Silent Britain
2006 | 90 mins
Start reclaiming your silent film heritage with a look at Matthew Sweet's ground-breaking documentary.
Simla Scenes - Indian Viceroy at Lahore
1931 | 13 mins
Street life in Simla and Lahore.
Sing As We Go!
1934 | 80 mins
Gracie Fields - the 1930s British icon - goes to Blackpool.
Sir Conrad Corfield's Personal Films
1928 | 32 mins
Corfield's home movies - from Simla to big game hunts.
Six Little Jungle Boys
1945 | 9 mins
Vibrant animated vehicle for a rather unsavoury message from the War Office.
Size M
1970 | 12 mins
'Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe' goes underground.
The Small World of Sammy Lee
1962 | 107 mins
Taut, under-seen crime drama set in the seedy Soho underworld.
The Smiths
1987 | 52 mins
One of Britain's most idiosyncratic bands under the South Bank Show's microscope.
So Clever Are the German Spies in Their Disguises That Even Nuns Have to Have Their Passports Examined
1914 | 1 mins
Nuns at bayonet point... almost.
So it Goes (Clips)
1977 | 30 mins
Tony Wilson presents live performances from The Stranglers, The Sex Pistols and The Clash.
Soho Square
1992 | 11 mins
Painterly portrait of the sights and sounds of the crowded London square.
Solarflares Burn for You
1973 | 9 mins
Road movie or acid trip?
Some Activities of the Bermondsey Borough Council
1931 | 25 mins
A forward-thinking London borough council records its good deeds for posterity.
Something for the Boys
1981 | 42 mins
A illicit gay bar changes the life of a nervous Scottish soldier when an American officer sits at his table.
A Son of Africa
1996 | 30 mins
The story of the African man who was one of the true leaders of the abolitionist movement.
The Song of Ceylon
1934 | 38 mins
Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of Sri Lanka and the effects of advanced industrialism.
Song of Freedom
1936 | 80 mins
Paul Robeson stars as a London docker who becomes a world-famous opera singer.
Song of the People
1945 | 27 mins
A real one-off - a hymn to Socialism shot as a documentary-musical.
Soul Nation
2003 | 50 mins
The story of how British youth fell in love with R&B.
South - Sir Ernest Shackleton's Glorious Epic of the Antarctic
1919 | 80 mins
Stunning record of Shackleton's ill-fated but heroic expedition.
Southern India - Tobacco Area
1937 | 7 mins
The tobacco industry in Andhra Pradesh.
Spare Time
1939 | 15 mins
'Rule Britannia' played on kazoos... Has having good time ever looked quite so miserable?
Sparrows Can't Sing
1962 | 94 mins
Cockney comedy starring a BAFTA-nominated Barbara Windsor.
Spend Spend Spend
1977 | 90 mins
The rags to riches to rags story of Britain's most famous pools winner.
Spirit of Albion
1987 | 58 mins
New Age Travellers, Britain's very own nomads, attempt to preserve their way of life.
The Spongers
1978 | 105 mins
The Silver Jubilee celebrations offer an ironic counterpoint to a family struggling on State Aid.
Springtime in an English Village
1948 | 7 mins
A young black girl is crowned Queen of the May.
Stan's Last Game
1983 | 63 mins
Black comedy in which the rivalry between two football club chairmen is exacerbated following the death of a long-time fan.
The Star of Bethlehem
1956 | 18 mins
Lotte Reiniger's distinctive silhouette animation of the Nativity.
Staying On
1980 | 87 mins
An elderly British couple stay on in India long after the Raj.
Steptoe and Son
1970 | 30 mins
Harold is led astray by a 'cultured' antiques dealer.
Stocker's Copper
1972 | 85 mins
Drama set around the strike of Cornish clay miners in 1913.
Stonehenge - Panorama of the Ancient Druidical Remains
1900 | 1 mins
The ancient British icon in the days before coach parties invaded.
Storm Damage
2000 | 95 mins
Ashley Walters and Adrian Lester star in this tough drama about troubled teenagers in care.
Strip! Strip! Hooray!!!
1932 | 36 mins
A tale of loose morals in a private club for scantily-clad sunbathers.
The Sugar Dynasty
2005 | 60 mins
The slave-owning Beckford family - Britain's answer to the Borgias.
The Sugar Slaves
1972 | 55 mins
BBC documentary examining the importance of slavery to the maintenance of the British Empire.
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971 | 110 mins
Daniel loves Bob and so does Alex...
Sunday in the Park
1956 | 15 mins
A lazy summer's day in Hyde Park.
Sundial
1991 | 1 mins
Canary Wharf as icon.
Sunset Across the Bay
1975 | 70 mins
Mam and Dad retire to Morecambe in Alan Bennett's poignant tale.
Sunshine in Soho
1956 | 33 mins
This 1950s Soho beats with far more energy than its pallid 21st century counterpart.
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936 | 68 mins
The City's menfolk risk a dangerously close shave in Mr Todd's barbershop.
Sword Dance Performed Before the King and Queen in India
1912 | 1 mins
Swords, but no dances.
Tarka the Otter
1978 | 91 mins
Britain's most famous otter stars in this much-loved family favourite.
Tartans of the Scottish Clans
1906 | 2 mins
Kilts but no Celts in this early film about the great Scottish icon.
A Taste of Honey
1961 | 100 mins
A single pregnant woman befriends a gay man in the prejudiced world of '60s Britain.
Tea Making Tips
1941 | 10 mins
What's the recipe for the perfect cup of char?
Television Comes to London
1936 | 18 mins
The first ever TV documentary explores the year running up to the launch of the BBC Television Service.
Temples of India
1938 | 10 mins
Hinduism for beginners.
Ten Bob in Winter
1963 | 12 mins
Pioneering black British film following the travails of a jobless student on an icy London day.
The Ten Year Plan
1945 | 17 mins
Charles Hawtrey on the utilitarian wonder of the 'prefab'
Terence Davies Trilogy
1976 | 92 mins
Repressed homosexuality and Catholic guilt in Davies' landmark Liverpool-set saga.
Terminus
1961 | 30 mins
The ebb and flow of human life wryly observed during a day at Waterloo Station.
Territories
1984 | 26 mins
Isaac Julien's political experimental documentary about the Notting Hill Carnival.
Terry on the Fence
1985 | 70 mins
A South London schoolboy runs away and becomes involved with a gang of tearaways.
A Test for Love
1937 | 28 mins
Sweeping romantic drama (and treatise on STDs) set in a sleepy English seaside town in the '30s.
Things to Come
1936 | 97 mins
The city of the future rises from the rubble of world war in H.G. Wells' prescient sci-fi fable.
Think of England
1999 | 50 mins
Photographer Martin Parr seeks out the English icons.
This Charming Man
1994 | 26 mins
Meloni Poole's moving portrait of her father - the inventor of the horse jacuzzi.
This Happy Breed
1944 | 106 mins
Noël Coward's saga of a Clapham family between the two World Wars.
This Was England
1935 | 21 mins
The agricultural development of Suffolk - from the Neolithic to the 1930s.
This Week Special: We Wish You a Merry Christmas
1966 | 20 mins
Celebrate Christmas with media mogul Robert Maxwell and family.
This Week: Homosexuals
1964 | 25 mins
Documentary made at a time when male homosexuality was still illegal.
This Week: Lesbians
1965 | 25 mins
1960s lesbians in the spotlight.
This Year - London
1951 | 25 mins
A pleasure trip to the sights (and bomb sites) of post-War London.
Three Fat Women of Antibes
1969 | 50 mins
Call me Frank! Three women enjoy the spa treatment.
The Threepenny Opera
1931 | 105 mins
19th century London is recreated in a Berlin film studio for this adaptation of Brecht and Weill's revolutionary musical.
Till Death Us Do Part
1972 | 30 mins
Bigoted East Ender Alf Garnett rails against the world.
The Time of Our Lives
1994 | 81 mins
The life and times of an East End Irish family.
Tins for India
1941 | 8 mins
Unseen for over 50 years, Bimal Roy's documentary finds poetry in the kerosene can.
To Have and to Hold
2000 | 13 mins
A woman finds herself in a gruesome predicament after a car crash in the deep, dark woods...
Together
1956 | 52 mins
East End and Butlers Wharf locations feature in this under-seen drama about two deaf men.
Tom's Ride
1944 | 11 mins
Tom wants a bike and finds a wallet - will he do the honorable thing?
Too Late to Talk to Billy
1982 | 85 mins
Blistering, Belfast-set drama of a family at loggerheads, starring Kenneth Branagh.
Top of the Pops 78
1978 | 59 mins
Kate Bush throws some ethereal shapes in the iconic music video for 'Wuthering Heights'.
Top Ten: Punk
2000 | 60 mins
A beginner's guide to punk.
Topical Budget 485-2: Christmas at Work in the Open
1920 | 1 mins
Children make their own Christmas decorations at the Great Northern Hospital.
Topical Budget 529-2: How to Hold 'Baby'
1921 | 1 mins
Infant-handling tips from Queen Mary.
Torchwood
2007 | 50 mins
Captain Jack goes back to the 1940s and falls in love.
Tottenham Still Going Strong in Tea Fights
1919 | 8 mins
Street parties abound as the people of Tottenham celebrate the end of World War I.
Trafalgar Square Riot
1913 | 1 mins
A suffragette procession in Trafalgar Square causes a riot.
Traitor
1971 | 60 mins
John Le Mesurier stars as a disgraced spy in Dennis Potter's play.
A Traveller in Time
1978 | 150 mins
A girl staying with her great-aunt and uncle finds herself able to slip back and forth to the reign of Elizabeth I, where she becomes involved in the plot to save Mary, Queen of Scots.
Trellick Tower
1981 | 10 mins
Who says architecture should be easy? The controversial legacy of Modernism.
Trial for Marriage
1936 | 28 mins
A sizzling insight into student life in the '30s.
Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960 | 123 mins
Wilde brings about his own downfall when he decides to sue the father of his lover for slander.
The Trouble With…Gay Men
2006 | 56 mins
After years of political and cultural progress, why do so many of today's gay men seem content to conform to stereotypes?
True Romance Etc.
1982 | 34 mins
A refreshing take on sex education using a wild teenage party as a springboard for discussion.
The Truth About Gay Sex
2002 | 49 mins
Ever wondered what gay men get up to in bed? Virgins, notepads at the ready...
The Truth Will Out
1930 | 3 mins
Anti-Congress propaganda made by a District Officer.
The Turning Point (Horlicks Ad)
1951 | 3 mins
Who needs a marriage councillor when a mug of Horlicks is at hand?
Twelve Views of Kensal House
1984 | 55 mins
Can the social housing ideals of the '30s survive in a very different era?
Twilight City
1989 | 52 mins
Black Audio Film Collective's portrait of Thatcher's London.
Two Cooks and a Cabbage
1941 | 6 mins
How not to boil a cabbage.
The Two Marys
1994 | 30 mins
Slavery through the eyes of two very different women.
The Uncharted Sea
1928 | 39 mins
A young man discovers the perils - and sensual pleasures - of city life.
The Unclean World
1903 | 1 mins
What's that crawling around in the cheese?
Underground
1928 | 80 mins
Passions run deep on the London Underground.
Undressing Extraordinary
1901 | 2 mins
Classic comedy or early horror? A man finds taking his clothes off more difficult than usual.
The Union Jack: A Banner for Britain
2006 | 60 mins
Biography of the flag - from a symbol of national pride to its adoption by the BNP.
Untold: Britain's Slave Trade
1999 | 208 mins
Four-part documentary series exploring the connections between the slave trade and contemporary Britain.
Unwanted Guests
1943 | 9 mins
Pay a visit to the nit nurse.
The Vanishing Street
1962 | 20 mins
Record of the once-thriving East End Jewish community.
Victim
1961 | 100 mins
Groundbreaking drama that dared to portray homosexuals sympathetically in a dark tale of blackmail and prejudice.
Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV
1986 | 30 mins
The joy of Victoria Wood: from Acorn Antiques to the erotic potential of bicycle clips.
View From An Engine Front - Ilfracombe
1898 | 4 mins
A bendy train trip through Devon - full steam ahead!
A Village Affair
1995 | 120 mins
A married mother's life is turned upside down in the much-loved lesbian Aga saga from Joanna Trollope.
Villain
1971 | 98 mins
Richard Burton stars as a psychotic homosexual gangster based on Ronnie Kray.
Walter
1982 | 75 mins
Ian McKellen stars as a man with learning difficulties in the first ever Film on Four broadcast, directed by Stephen Frears.
Wasp
2003 | 24 mins
An Oscar-winning short, with a pivotal role for nobody's favourite insect.
The Way We Live
1946 | 62 mins
Docu-drama heralding the visionary transformation of Plymouth after its near-obliteration in WWII.
We Are The Lambeth Boys
1959 | 52 mins
South London youth - members of Alford House Youth Club in Kennington at work and play.
We Think the World of You
1980 | 55 mins
The life and loves of author J.R. Ackerley.
Wedding of the Maharaj Kumar Shri Meghraji Saheb of Kutch and Maharaj Shri of Kishangarh
1933 | 13 mins
Indian princes arrive by yacht for a lavish wedding.
A Welcome to Britain
1943 | 60 mins
Britain for beginners... or Americans, at least.
Welsh National Eisteddfod
1916 | 1 mins
Newsreel coverage of the 1916 Welsh National Eisteddfod in Aberystwyth.
Went the Day Well?
1942 | 92 mins
What if German paratroopers had invaded Britain?
West Coast Otters
2005 | 10 mins
It's 'mother knows best' for a young Scottish otter as she learns to catch fish.
West Indians
1963 | 12 mins
A Caribbean man deals with the realities of living in early '60s London.
What a Life!
1948 | 12 mins
Rationing, moaning and burnt toast. A film for pessimists.
What We Want is Watney's
1959 | 1 mins
A pre-fame Michael Caine stars in this advert for Watney's ale.
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
1973 | 30 mins
The Likely Lads' finest (half) hour - can they avoid hearing the football results?
Whatsoever a Man Soweth
1917 | 37 mins
A remarkably explicit warning to WWI soldiers about the perils of fraternizing with loose women.
When I'm 64
2004 | 90 mins
It's never too late to come out...
White Tribe
2000 | 180 mins
Darcus Howe goes in search of white England.
Who is Poly Styrene?
1979 | 40 mins
Guide to the pint-sized teenage singer of X-Ray Spex.
The Wicker Man
1973 | 86 mins
Pagan rites on a Scottish isle in the original cult favourite.
William Meiklejohn's Family Films
1935 | 17 mins
These home movies include footage of Darjeeling, West Bengal and Bangladesh.
Winter
1923 | 13 mins
Wildlife in winter.
Witchfinder General
1968 | 87 mins
A menacing Vincent Price wreaks havoc across 17th Century Suffolk.
Within These Walls
1975 | 60 mins
Women in prison - from a time before 'Bad Girls' and 'Prisoner - Cell Block H'.
Withnail & I
1986 | 107 mins
I demand to have some booze! - two out-of-work actors take to the countryside in this comedy classic.
Women's Rights
1899 | 1 mins
Rubbish Victorian cross-dressers.
The Wonderful Fruit of the Tropics
1914 | 5 mins
Collecting and eating the fruit of India.
Working Class Dykes From Hell
1992 | 60 mins
Lesbians talk about being out, proud and working class.
World Cup Final '66
1966 | 105 mins
England's finest hour? World Cup coverage from the BBC.
A World is Turning
1948 | 40 mins
Six reels of rushes are all that remain of this unfinished film showcasing talented members of Britain's black and Asian communities.
The World Ten Times Over
1963 | 93 mins
British cinema's earliest lesbian relationship?
World's First Caterpillar Track
1908 | 6 mins
It's tractor vs. tractor in this gruelling test to see who will triumph - will it be steam or petrol? Gentlemen, start your engines.
Wuthering Heights
1962 | 93 mins
A big budget isn't everything, as this innovative 1962 one-off TV adaptation - shot entirely in a studio - demonstrates.
Wuthering Heights
1967 | 180 mins
Twenty years before Lovejoy, Ian McShane plays a very different rogue: Heathcliff, in this 1967 adaptation.
Wuthering Heights
1970 | 104 mins
A young Timothy Dalton broods in breeches as Heathcliff in this rarely-seen feature film version from 1970.
Wuthering Heights
1978 | 250 mins
Epic five-part dramatisation from 1978 that doesn't shy away from the hysteria and savagery of its source.
Wuthering Heights
1998 | 113 mins
Ambitious 1998 TV movie that evokes its period setting with particular care.
Yasmin
2005 | 100 mins
9/11 and its after-effects on a young Muslim woman.
Young Soul Rebels
1991 | 105 mins
The Queen's Silver Jubilee beats to the sounds of Funkadelic, Sylvester and the O'Jays.
Z Cars
1964 | 50 mins
When a young African man attacks a bailiff, his wife does not believe he will get unprejudiced treatment from the Newtown police.
