Descent of the Great Pyramid

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy and obser...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains...

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan stage.

This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.

A day in the life of a train station.

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China. Th...

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current military situation in the Dardanelles, using various maps...

A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.

Time Stood Still is a 1956 Warner Brothers Scope Gem travelogue, filmed the previous year in Dinkelsbühl, and presented in the wide-screen format of C...

Explore the extraordinary hidden world of insects, where a leaf weighs more than a car, rain drops feel like exploding hand grenades and a blade of gr...

The film "Hurricane on the Bayou" is about the wetlands of Louisiana before and after Hurricane Katrina.

An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.