Bfi Movies

A horse and cart carrying two nuns is stopped by two men with fixed bayonets.

Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film.

Femi is a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after being fostered in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother....

The story of a young man undergoing treatment by a Czech psychoanalyst.

Ilford's Fairlop Plain provides the battlefield for ploughing matches between local hands and Essex outsiders.

Intrigued by the desire to have been a Bunny Girl, the director takes a look at what it meant. Interviewing several of the original Bunnies she learns...

Ernie tells Eric to ‘be wise’ and not drive home after their Christmas party.

On the morning of, Bev and her family anticipated the verdict of her son’s trial.

A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with...

A psycho-geographic journey through London and its history, as undertaken by an unseen narrator and his companion, Robinson, at the time of the 1992 g...

Shown in training with the recently formed Midland Canoe Club, Nottinghamshire miner Billy Churn went on to compete in the Helsinki Summer Games, alon...

Filmed at the time Hockney was painting Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, Portrait of David Hockney is made up of a limited number of shots, observing the p...

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,...

Tody is a lonely bird slaving his life away in a packaging factory. He dreams of a better life in the sunshine with someone there who actually cares i...

A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed...

A large family in London's East End is celebrating a birthday party. Children and grandchildren from this extensive family have come to the party from...

Four minutes of heavily cut-up sound and vision with collage, animation and multiple exposures throughout.

The majestic rebirth of Manchester's Bradford Colliery and other stories.

Highlights of Prince Philip's visit to Antarctica, Falkland Island Dependencies, the Falkland Islands themselves, Gough Island, Tristan da Cunha, St....

Inspired by a poem by William Blake: a short experimental film about the perception of vision.