Bfi Movies

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved, rev...

Hear the Lama band, see the sacred dances: welcome to Sikkim, in the shadow of the Himalayas.

When Lyla - a lost and lonely 17 year old girl - meets Marion - a wise and elderly woman with a fountain of wisdom - in a cemetery early one Sunday mo...

A dead officer's German wife betrays 'Hampshire's' secret route.

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...

On-set documentary following the making of Mark Jenkin's film 'Rose of Nevada'

Arthur Mullard and Kenneth Williams supply the voices of two gnomes locked in a car boot in this crime prevention short; another impressive example of...

While exploring an abandoned building, two friends discover a recording of a woman who claims to be the last citizen of a lost Utopia.

A man extols the enjoyment that can still be had in a bath restricted to the wartime allowance of five inches of hot water.

Through vintage amateur movies as well as archival Communist propaganda documentaries, this program turns back the clock to see what Tibet was like fr...

The Polish entry in the BFI’s Century of Cinema series of documentaries

A man must confront the dark origins of his complex eating disorder to move his life forward.

Test of observation for amateur detectives. Two crimes are depicted: The Crooked Billet Murder and Back Stage Murder.

The second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.

William Shakespeare, without saying a word, gives a quick run through of all his plays in a very special audition.

Indian village life, including a Brahmin initiation ceremony and a Hindu wedding.

The son of a wealthy merchant fakes his own death to join up, but his heroic act at the Front is wrongly attributed to his cowardly cousin.

Powerful and sometimes disturbing account of Britain's defences against enemy attack - made six months before WWII.

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey...

A short documentary visiting some of Rashômon’s key locations, featuring interviews with former staff from the Daiei-Kyoto Studios.