Union Terrace, Aberdeen: the William Wallace statue surveys a rambunctious crowd as they greet the Scottish infantry regiment the Gordon Highlanders. Something of a cross between the popular ‘factory ...

A freight train travelling between Kirkby Stephen and Barnard Castle has become snowbound in the Westmorland hills. The Motive Power, Operating and Engineering Departments go to work with snowploughs ...

Poetry was Ellis Evans' passion- his life's ambition to be chaired at a National Eisteddfod. He achieved this at the Birkenhead Eisteddfod of 1917. Unfortunately, he never knew of his success as he ...

Playing Gustav von Aschenbach for the director he dubbed ‘the Emperor’ was, said Bogarde, the pick of his career. Both film and performance divided critical opinion, but there is no denying the ...

Among all surviving examples of the 'phantom ride' train journey film, this is one of the most drop-dead gorgeous. Filmed in 68mm by the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company, it takes in tunnels, ...

The formation of the Gay Black Group was a landmark in gay black history. Meeting at Gay's the Word, a bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, it provided a sounding board and support for gay and black ...

Sex and cinema have been bawdy bedfellows almost since the first flickering frames hit a screen. As early as 1896, saucy shorts were already being cranked out to titillate voyeuristic - and invariably ...

Although his cutting lyrics speak provocatively about identity politics, it is not until Zed (Ahmed) returns home after two years on tour that he is called by his real name: Zaheer. But it is the ...

A newlywed Indian couple arrive in London, 1979, and attempt to make a home out of their new lives. As they navigate 40 years of marriage through the food they make and the meals they share, their ...

Some of the most fascinating of early films are those which are content to watch the Victorian world go by. Numerous filmmakers parked their cameras on street corners, outside workplaces or churches, ...

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News reporters Tony and Sally Adams visit a nudist centre at a country hotel in South Devon. The beach at Slapton Sands Nature Reserve and nearby Pilchard Cove have been frequented by nudist bathers ...