Bfi Movies

People being fully dressed walking on the beach.

A young Scottish teen tries his best to overcome his fear of sleeping in this short horror.

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...

Behind the scenes at a Chennai teachers training college.

//_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...

Large numbers of children and adults can be seen enjoying themselves, splashing about in the water or diving from the high-boards.

Innovative early 'trick' film showing the popular 'flying the foam' stunt performed on - or rather off - Brighton's West Pier.

The film camera is used to great effect here to trick and treat its audience, injecting fun into the otherwise mundane London commute, slum demolition...

Remarkable amateur footage of Mahatma Gandhi shot by his great nephew in 1947.

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

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

Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi.

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...

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...

Martha has stopped listening to her intuition and her life begins to suffer. After a strange encounter, she starts to reassess and begin her journey o...

Basil Brush comes to the rescue of potential careless bathers.

Private Daly of the Connaught Rangers triumphs in the Aldershot Command annual cross country race, months before the outbreak of WWI.