A cheerful crew of kids in Croyde, Devon have fun amidst the sand dunes as they try to protect their brilliant beach from army cadet interlopers in this bright and breezy Children's Film Foundation ...

"The good things of England are what we can see around". So says the former mayor of Walsall Sid Wright about the appeal of the town's market. And he should know - he's a stallholder with a thriving ...

From some of the earliest appearances at the dawn of the 20th century to groundbreaking postwar documentaries and contemporary features, this collection charts changing attitudes and hidden histories.

An excellent record of farming in Cumbria here, from Kendal filmmaker Anne Beck. Going out and about in her locality, filming the people and places she knew well, she has documented the farming year, ...

Even David Attenborough hasn’t filmed the Ungle-Wungle bird. It took four animators working in their spare time to bring this rare creature to the screen. Bob Godfrey, Vera Linnecar, Richard Taylor ...

These aviatrices are Ladies by birth, marriage and outstanding achievement. They pursue careers in flying at that time a preserve of the rich and famous. Pauline Gower is born Pauline Mary de Peauly ...

Jakob (Mark Rylance) wants to be of service. Admitted to a peculiar school for servants run by domineering Johannes (Gottfried John) and his sorrowful sister Lisa (Alice Krige), Jakob gradually ...

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 ...

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 ...

Set in Scotland, this film tells the story of four British Road Services drivers who lived and worked together for two years, loading and transporting 20,000 tons of cement in seven-and-a-half-ton ...

In the early 1960s, with women's lib just a twinkle on the horizon, the Tynemouth lido on the rocks is the much-loved 'show pool' backdrop for a popular spectacle of style and glamour in swimwear.

Cinema's railway obsession goes back to the dawn of the medium, when French pioneers the Lumière brothers filmed the arrival of a train at la Ciotat in 1895. British filmmakers soon took to the tracks ...