Bfi Movies

All hands to the pump! This demonstration of a 125 year old fire engine shows it can still be useful when the need arises.

Frank told a bad joke at his new place of work. Nobody laughed. Now at 3am in the morning he is unable to sleep as he obsesses and ruminates over this...

Cuties explores the elusive beauty in how we as a species continue forward in spite of our proclivity for destruction.

Horatio Herbert Kitchener gets an enviable welcome on his return from the Second Boer War.

A powerful film about the secrets kept between a mother and her daughters from British director Jamie di Spirito.

//_sleeper is a short animation set in a dying, industrial town both familiar and unfamiliar. This is neither future nor past, but rather somewhere lo...

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.

A very emotional look at the loneliness and heartache often conjured whilst travelling by train.A powerful and stunning piece with a focus on love los...

A timeless landscape steeped in history that is little changed today, but was surely made to be filmed!

First county cricket match of the season between champions Lancashire and Warwickshire.

A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.

A ritual created and performed by Bruce Lacey.

The Polish entry in the BFI’s Century of Cinema series of documentaries

'Our Day' badges and flags being sold in aid of wounded WWI soldiers are shown in this Topical Budget film.

Indian high society enjoy themselves at a Calcutta garden party held to welcome the new Viceroy, Lord Irwin.

A pioneering effort in bringing shadow puppetry to the cinema.

The intrepid Lieutenant Pimple thwarts foreign enemies in an action-packed wartime spy spoof.

Outside the huts of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12 stand the smiling figures of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Dr Edward Wilson. Wilson...

Scenes of islanders and seabirds on the remote island of St. Kilda.

This rare film of stage actor and later cinema star Tod Slaughter opens with a view of St Paul's over the river and the bright lights of Piccadilly at...