Movies

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Documentary short about how Britain is improving after WWII and what the populace can do to help.

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

This short film examines the Japan that emerged at the beginning of the 1900s and was firmly established as an industrialized nation by the outbreak...

Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a...

Shows new methods in treating those afflicted with mental health issues. Contrasts past treatment regimes where people were locked away out of sight...

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.

This short documentary about the Canadian seamen who manned Canada's eastern ports during WWII is the first film in the Canada Carries On series. The...

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...

The first film ever distributed by the NFB, The Case of Charlie Gordon focuses on an unemployed young Canadian who has never held a job. In the late...

A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and...

A Cambridge student takes the blame for his gambling brother.

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

This wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression.

Commissioned by the Festival of Britain to show the similarities and contrasts between 1851 and 1951, by means of the Great Exhibition and the...

Short film produced and directed in 1945 for the National Film Board of Canada series The World in Action. Over its nearly 21-minute running time,...