Bfi Movies

An animation about a disabled penguin who lives on a rocky island in the southern seas where she feels isolated from the rest of her colony. She is in...

A provoking film on the place of women.

Tourist promo film extolling the delights of Birmingham and the Midlands, with a sprinkling of arch one-liners.

King George V (1970) charts the history of the celebrated locomotive, which was taken out of service in 1965 but offered a length of siding at Bulmers...

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh undertook an official visit to the region in February 1966, as documented in this film. The destinations on this m...

Documentary about the life and career of the 1940s and 1950s boxer Randy Turpin.

These gorgeous scenes of Great Hucklow capture the Derbyshire village’s preparations for the celebration of King George V’s Silver Jubilee.

A nutty professor meets a very hungry caterpillar in this animated chase cartoon brimming with swinging 60s backdrops.

Short road safety film.

Radical resistance in the postwar British Caribbean community, from the 1948 Nationality Act to the 1958 Brixton riots.

In the summer of 1924 Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of colour cinematography, set out from Cornwall with the aim of recording life on the road betwe...

A melancholic yet heartfelt story of the former singer of pop band Black Lace and his journey on the road with his aging mother and his partner, as he...

Moving record of a once-thriving East End Jewish community on the cusp of enormous change.

A hard-hitting public information film made at the height of the Great Influenza 1918-18.

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

The Painter and the Engines (1967) follows painter David Shepherd’s race against time to record on canvas the magic and romance of steam during the lo...

Adventures on a fishing boat as told by two young boys who experience what it takes to be a fisherman at sea.

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren and collaborator Evelyn Lambart.

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...

A production of Oxford Polytechnic for sponsor the Family Planning Association, this is an unreservedly hairy promotion of the prophylactic in avoidin...