Bfi Movies

Take a scenic trip through 1920s North Wales to the sea.

An array of brave 1950s water skiing girls and guys bring a bit of Hollywood glamour to the chilly waters of Loch Earn.

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...

Men have a race to win a girl and get involved with crooks posing as a beautifying machine.

When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his...

First we invented the moving-image camera. Then we used the new camera to record the world around us. But it was only when the moving image was finall...

Mad, bad' poet Lord Byron and a lobster thermidor feature in a melancholy tour of Seaham with Johnny Morris.

The film camera is used to great effect here to trick and treat its audience, injecting fun into the otherwise mundane London commute, slum demolition...

Pianists Charlie Kunz and Mark Hambourg tickle the ivories for our entertainment in this jolly musical short.

Soon after the VE Day celebrations, there is a second chance to let the hair down, and these dancers make the most of it with much humour.

A colourful miscellany of footage from both sides of the Pennines.

Picnickers in punts, ‘bumpers’ and bubbly.

Time-travel to a 1940s classroom with this exemplary educational film.

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

Contemporary life in Plymouth in the 1960s – plus some history.

Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

Shy Radicals is a portrait of award-winning artist, activist and author Hamja Ahsan, and the story behind his remarkable book and satirical manifesto...