Bfi Movies

Rare insight into the health work of Methodist missionaries in rural Shaoyang, Hunan Province, South Central China.

As travelogues go this one doesn't quite cut it – good job Lanry household bleach can!

A noble English dance tradition is preserved in Hertfordshire.

A patchwork of East End colours and characters on Middlesex Street, better-known as Petticoat Lane.

An industrial epic plays out in steelmaking South Wales.

The revival of clog dancing in Portmadoc and of the craft of clog making.

Female cyclists from all parts of London meet at the Angel Ditton, before cycling to Wisley for a picnic.

Take a tour de France as cyclists double up for a tandem race through Paris's Bois de Boulogne.

The adrenaline rush of a race at South London's famous velodrome at the height of a cycling boom.

Large crowds are gathered to see Captain Scott's Terra Nova at Cardiff's Bute Docks as the ship moves away from the quay on her voyage to Antarctica.

Follow the happy couple from the family shop on Brick Lane to a garden party serenaded by the San Diego Dance Band.

England thrash Australia in the fifth Test at the Oval - but still lose the Ashes.

After playing their last match of the season, ten Clapton Orient players enlist for the 'Footballer's Battalion'.

Violet Asquith, daughter of the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, arrives at church to marry Maurice Bonham Carter.

Joyous scenes in Redruth, Cornwall at the wedding of a Nigerian couple in 1964 - who incorporate both British and traditional attire into the day's fe...

This film footage of the Ziegler North Pole expedition was reissued in Britain by Charles Urban in 1909 when all things Polar were of almost obsessive...

'Billy Merson, the great Nottingham-born music hall performer, presents one of his signature numbers. The film clearly captures Merson's comic brilli...

Short film by Michael Maynard

It’s all me, me, me – this experimental animation on the Self wittily wraps up Jung and old philosophies in a Paul Klee-inspired design.

The second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.