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BAFTA nominated BBC documentary about the acclaimed British artist L.S. Lowry.

Alan Simpson's lyrical, visually lush film captures the Mummers of Symondsbury as they enact their traditional Christmas play outside their village inn.

A panhandler who opens car doors for people in London's theatre district finds himself involved in a deadly mystery when a corpse with a cash-stuffed wallet falls out of a vehicle and he helps himself to some of the money.

Fictional story following the lines of a Frankenstein type horror movie: A grim scientist, when two of the robots he has created fall in love, orders his third robot to destroy the male one. The female robot subsequently seduces her creator scientist into drinking from a poisoned cup, and makes her escape..... Robot Three was awarded the Victor Saville Trophy (for most outstanding film) and the Alfred Hitchcock Cup (for best Fiction Film) at the 1952 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.

A trip through the Highlands and Islands of Scotland following in the footsteps of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

Rides, boxing booths, and a dog-faced monkey keep on moving as the travelling fair hits Mitcham and Stratford-upon-Avon, with a look in at Blackpool.

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

Adaptation of a Kafka short story, believed lost for more than 60 years.

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

Casting real doctors instead of actors, this film uses scripted scenarios and interviews to see the National Health Service through their eyes. The documentary also shows that there is still division among doctors as to whether the NHS was a sound idea in the first place.

Illustrates, through the medium of ballet, the manufacturing processes for woollen fabrics. A wool worker visits a fair and, looking into a slot machine, sees clock-work puppets come to life. He and the puppets, now ballet dancers, interpret the various stages in wool production in terms of ballet.

Follows the life cycle of the desert locust.

Our animated hero questions his sanity after blowing his top and driving his car into a police station.

A rare TV documentary with journalist Daniel Farson.

No white man has ever set foot beyond the coastal regions of New Guinea and so Armand and Michaela Denis determined to explore this virtually unknown territory. The film is the story of their adventures among natives whose colorful lives are based on brutal principles which have been unchanged for thousands of years and also of their expedition to the distant Waghi Valley where they found and photographed the rare and exotic bird of paradise.

This episode perpetrated the great Spaghetti Harvest Hoax on April Fool's Day 1957. The filmed report appeared to show a Swiss family harvesting their annual crop of spaghetti which was growing on trees on their farm, talked about the efforts to eradicate the Spaghetti Weevil and discussed the selective breeding that had been required to produce spaghetti of a uniform length. Many viewers believed what they saw and contacted the BBC to enquire how to grow their own spaghetti tree: the advice that they were given was "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best".

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Le Mans 24 hour race won by Mercedes-Benz.

Queen Elizabeth's younger and only sibling, Princess Margaret, went on a 5-week tour of Mauritius and East Africa in September-October 1956.

An express freight train links manufacturers with their customers at the other end of Britain.

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

Skittles enthusiasts gather at the Parc and Dare Unionist Club, in the Rhonda Valley, Glamorgan, for a local ‘needle match’. There are lots of flat caps and pipes!

A BAFTA nominated documentary investigating the development of the castle.

A documentary feature with Basil Spence explaining, with the aid of a model, the concepts behind the design of the new Coventry Cathedral to replace the one destroyed during WWII.

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.

In this Shell-sponsored short, the celebrated British poet narrates this travelogue about the Avebury stone circle and nearby burial grounds.

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

A BBC Television film recalling the part Alexandra Palace has played in British television between 1935 and 1954. It shows the erection of the first transmitter, the building of 'A' and 'B' studios, and introduces scenes and excerpts from early television productions and outside broadcasts.

Scenic route through the Vale of Evesham, Worcester and Great Malvern, with a detour to a lost masterpiece of outsider art.

From the extraordinary world of Pete Collins a pilot that looks at A 3-part pilot television series that featured people doing strange things or with unusual talents.

A day in the life of Joe, a chainmaker from Cradley Heath near Birmingham, UK in the late 1950s

David Gladwell (Requiem for a Village) was just 20 years old when he made A summer Discord, an imaginative amateur, silent short film set in the countryside which tells the story of a little girl who is reprimanded by her mother. Of particular note is the film’s dark nightmare sequence which is shot in colour (unlike the rest of the film) and which anticipates Gladwell’s later, highly poetical films.

A trip into a surreal winter garden, a voyage on a stormy sea, a grisly homecoming – there is something for everyone in this “experiment in words, music and paintings”. Four films were made in this series for the BFI’s Telekinema at the Festival of Britain, combining some of the best contemporary illustrators and artists with a diverse range of verse. The readers are also of some pedigree, with Michael Redgrave, Stanley Holloway and Eric Portman adding their names to the bill.

A visit to the confederation of Cinque Ports of Kent and Sussex, tracing their history.

A look into what it takes to replenish and 83,000 ton liner, the Queen Elizabeth, before her next voyage.

The main industrial processes concerned with the shaping of metal under pressure.

The initial stages of the construction of an oil refinery on the Isle of Grain, Kent, and its impact on the local farming community.

An overview of the 1955 Belgian Grand Prix by Shell Oil. Watch the racing heroes of the 1950's conquer the tarmac in one of the picturesque racing circuits of Europe.

A musical summary of the post-Culloden journey of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

Perugia and its Italian University for foreign students.

A look at travelling from London with Britannia Airline to Tokyo to discover Japan, and back via Hong Kong along with a look at the ocean liner Arundel Castle.

Accidents often happen when we least expect them. SImple carelessness, especially in the home, creates conditions in which an accident may occur. Prompt treatment can often reduce the seriousness of such accidents, and this film shows how essential it is that everyone should be fully trained in First Aid.

A documentary looking at the British Government's atomic weapons design, construction and testing on the Australian Monte Bello Islands in 1951.

Two children on holiday go exploring, and after visiting Carisbrooke Castle are swept out to the Needles and are rescued by the lighthouse keepers.

Driving school tuition, including the innovative mock-up car, the junior driver course and the training of police drivers and London bus drivers.

Series of five adventures about two children and their Alsatian.

A BAFTA special award nominated documentary that describes, in simple terms, the complete functioning of the human body - skeletal, muscular, vascular, excretory, endocrine and nervous systems

Amateur film by British diplomat Clarmont Skrine recording the alpine foothills and Basque coastline of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of south-western France bordering with Spain.

On the shortest journey you pass a church or two. Out of the 20,000 churches in Britain, the artist, John Piper, whose work contributes to the glory of England's churches, selects and describes a church built in each of the last nine centuries, from Norman times to the present day. Accompanied by the music of Peter Racine Fricker, he reveals the beauty and riches of architecture, decoration, carving and sculpture aged in mellow stone and weathered glass; the art of the wood carver and the sculptor, and in doing so finds that through the centuries the portrayal of the human face and figure has been an unfailing source of inspiration to all who have brought their talents to the service of the Church.

A documentary following the daily life on the island of Rathlin, off the coast of Northern Ireland.

A black cat that turns into a man and kills its owners.

A love story inspired by a poem of Wilfred Rowland Childe.

A documentary feature explaining the principles of Schlieren photography, which makes any phenomenon that changes the refractive index of transparent substances visible.

Taking the lid off the creative process with a group of theatrically-minded 11-year-olds as they stage the nativity.

Part of BFI collection "London on the Move."

A BAFTA award nominated documentary featuring a young training officer explaining the "three principles of good instruction": prepare, plan, promote.