Brighton Street Scene

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions a...

Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy and obser...

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, two college students set out to make a revolutionary television show. The pilot episode was uncovered and presented alon...

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China. Th...

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains...

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrate...

Bhat, a member of the Moi tribe in Indo-China, loves Dhi, but her father Khan does not believe Bhat is worthy of his daughter, as he lacks hunting and...

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957),on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the...

Sex star gives an explosive behind the scenes view of the people who make sexual fantasies come true on the silver screen. Sex Stars is the first fea...

This non-narrative short film examines one of the great American icons: the Louisville Slugger baseball bat. The film was conceived by its co-director...

Experiments on the crystallization of various inorganic substances: crystallization from solution, crystallization from melt and vapour phase, mixed c...

Short film about the movement patterns of protozoa