Sex and cinema have been bawdy bedfellows almost since the first flickering frames hit a screen. As early as 1896, saucy shorts were already being cranked out to titillate voyeuristic - and invariably ...

Their films give us stunning images of ordinary life in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain: factory workers, church congregations and schoolchildren, street scenes, tram rides, local events and ...

Blue Pullman shows one of British Railways’ 90 mph diesel-electric Pullman trains (the forerunner of today’s Inter-City 125’s) in construction and in action. It was said to be the businessman’s train ...

Britain's wildlife filmmakers have long been the envy of the world - well before the era of Sir David Attenborough. Back in the 1910s, 20s and 30s, resourceful, dogged and sometimes eccentric pioneers ...

A short documentary exploring the challenges of being young and chronically ill in a carefully curated online culture. When you’re too ill for IRL, where do you turn?

This upbeat film features performers from the then newly-formed British Theatre of the Deaf in rehearsal, as well as extracts from the company's production of Homer's The Odyssey. The company's ...

A wonderful short film about travelling around Britain by bicycle - with the help of the odd train. An excursion train equipped with cycle vans takes a party of cyclists and their machines from ...

An impression of life in the industrial valleys of south Wales, from daybreak to midnight, and of the growing part played in that life by buses and railways. The free verse spoken by Donald Houston ...

Kevin Brownlow’s portrait of the last days of Glasgow’s tram system centres on the last tram to run in 1962, accentuating the mood of the final journey by contrasting shots of the event to the funky ...

A children’s film set among a fishing community in the far north of Scotland. A group of kids get stranded on an abandoned luxury yacht out at sea.

Bush’s approach to music changed when he discovered the once famous composer, Rutland Boughton who was a member of the English Communist Party. Bush composed a series of operas which he hoped would ...

"We are not amused", said Queen Victoria - or so we're told. Her subjects, though, were eager for all manner of entertainments. The first films made their homes in the fairground and the music hall, ...