Bfi Movies

The English Rugby team are overpowered by a dominant Welsh team at Cardiff Arms Park.

The Kent workers busily stripping vines in the hop gardens.

Don’t judge a book by its cover but do judge a political party by its garage.

Road safety film about how 'accidents always happen to other people'. A series of scenes illustrate careless behavior that could lead to road accident...

From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.

Warwickshire face the Australian touring cricket team at Edgbaston

Large crowds gather for cricket week at Canterbury's St Lawrence Ground, as Kent take on Sussex and Nottinghamshire.

Man on the move, look back, all clear, OK, you're away - music and mantra for a time when the freedom of the road was unsullied and adventurous.

The home and family life of incoming Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.

Pensioners queue in the street for buses to a seaside excursion of sunshine and frolics.

The BFI's fascinating collection of 60 short films all made before 1911 aims to give wider access to some of the extraordinary film material held in t...

A beautiful, Pathécolor vision of the Powys market town of Machynlleth, famous as the location where the rebellious Owen Glendower was crowned Prince...

Colonial recruits from Trinidad meet the Lord Mayor of London during WWI.

Incredible scenes as an estimated one million people descend on the airport at Croydon to witness the return of pioneering pilot Amy Johnson from Aust...

Amateur shots of pilgrims and temples at Haridwar, followed by rural scenes and the Gorrie family at home.

A noble English dance tradition is preserved in Hertfordshire.

A big day in the Scottish Borders is captured with astonishing clarity in this remarkable film commissioned by the local cinema.

Time-honoured craftsmanship at Corfe, near Taunton in Somerset.

Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.

A look at the sales practices employed at the LPE Superette run by John Beasley on Berwick Street market.