Bfi Movies

The history of British fashion from the late-1890s to 1960. Part of BFI collection "Design for Today."

Jack Hobbs reaches his 124th century at the Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's.

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 wintry Watford High Street buzzes with busy shoppers.

Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.

A motorist's excursion captures a world made by hand in the environs of Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi.

Learn how to climb Great Gable in the Lake District, via the Arrowhead ridge climb.

Romantic, atmospheric travelogue capturing some of northern India’s most iconic places – not least the Taj Mahal.

A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short.

Billy the pet seal adapts to village life in Wereham, Norfolk.

Traffic chaos and parking pandemonium in London is nothing new around the capital.

Master baker, owner of Duffryn Bakery, Onllwyn, turns his hand to film-making and captures community events in glorious colour.

Public anxiety about war from the air is all too real for the people of Ramsgate in this newsreel footage of the aftermath of a Zeppelin raid.

Behind the scenes at a Chennai teachers training college.

Sussex take on Lancashire in the County Championship at Cricket Field Road.

Pure tranquillity in rural Somerset, a world away from the war raging on the continent.

Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.

A social club with washing tubs: take a tour of a 1950s Liverpool wash-house.

The construction of the hidden conduit for North Sea gas lurking under the picturesque Norfolk fenland.

Ponsford, Ryder and Woodfull seen batting in Victoria's record-breaking innings against New South Wales in Melbourne.