Bfi Movies

A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan dur...

A 1935 black and white film advertising London and exolting it's most popular tourist attractions.

The people, the scenery and the industrial traditions of the Stroud valley and the growth of the woollen industry.

2-6 March 1961 saw the Queen and Prince Philip make their first and only state visit to Iran. Their host was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (1919-80),the Shah...

This revolves around Tim West, an advertising executive who is developing a Channel 4 programme on cooking for terrorists. Disillusioned by the hyper-...

In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.

A man encounters all sorts of strange places and people when he goes out for cigarettes.

The message of this coastguard film was to raise awareness that HM Coastguard had become a ‘999’ service enabling the public to raise the alarm as it...

The campaign for women's suffrage steps up as Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested at the gates of Buckingham Palace.

Remarkable amateur footage of Mahatma Gandhi shot by his great nephew in 1947.

A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation.

Experimental drama set in London during the Thatcher administration involving four characters: Neil, a science-fiction illustrator; Kim, a woman rock...

The revival of clog dancing in Portmadoc and of the craft of clog making.

Queen Victoria and family experience the new 'cinematograph process'.

Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?" An investigation into the causes of a fatal accident on a motorway, in the course of which many aspects of ro...

A personal consideration of the Korean cinema by director Jang Sun-Woo, looking at it’s history of outside influence and censorship.

Wind and the Shadow is a short animation about the emotional and physical impact childhood illness and its treatment has on a six-year-old girl and he...

Inspired by a poem by William Blake: a short experimental film about the perception of vision.

A retired Major's efforts to hone his golf skills are thwarted by the diminutive but defiant common daisy.

Strangers conversing in a train compartment, revive wartime memories for one passenger.