Bfi Movies

An aging Brazilian actor teams up with a film student on a trip to Mexico, in order to find out an unknown movie his mother allegedly watched before s...

Defiance is in the air in this evocative newsreel footage of anti-fascist solidarity rallies, after the Battle of Cable Street.

The final episode of five reports on the construction of the Victoria Line in London. This one is edited highlights from the first four with very litt...

Wildfowl and wallabies in the wild, exotic animals in the office.

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

An ambitious Indian university graduate has to struggle to live his entrepreneurial dreams against both the British social structure and his own famil...

Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.

In 1901 people in Belfast paid their tram drivers in carrots.

This fascinating 60s tour catches London's South Bank in the middle of a cultural metamorphosis.

A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.

Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.

Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the grand marble Victoria Memorial in Calcutta.

This merrily musical short film takes a jovial trip across picturesque 1950s Spain aboard the Talgo Express.

Pure tranquillity in rural Somerset, a world away from the war raging on the continent.

A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.

Activities leading up to the launch of a large ship built at the Swan Hunter's Wallsend shipyard.

Various parts of the procession to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

Two power-line repair men work across rural areas of the UK in peace. When one returns from a family bereavement, the quiet working relationship they...

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

In 1972 a family are on their way for a holiday in Essex. The parents argue and the son swears, making obscene gestures. So the father throws him out,...