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A spontaneous family moment between two brothers became one of YouTube’s earliest global viral hits, capturing the platform’s emerging culture of everyday shared video.

Charlie Bit My Finger - Again!

  • 2007-05-22
David Attenborough on the rise of BBC Two and his journey from Zoo Quest presenter to channel controller.

David Attenborough Interview (London Line)

Beautiful, bittersweet tale of love, longing and Elvis. Xiao Mei leaves China for marriage in Britain. But her true desire is to find her family.

Red

  • Kilburn
  • 1995
A map that leads to treasure and trouble: John, Mary and Anne go in search of Jack Mundy's loot only to find that his map wasn't quite complete.

The Smugglers' Cave

  • Cornwall
  • 1937-01-01
Part experimental cinema, part advert for the parcel post service, always joyful.

A Colour Box

  • 1935
Merryweather Menswear 'have the flair to suit you!' A short and snappy 1965 cinema commercial for a Newmarket fashion retailer.

Merryweather Menswear, Newmarket

  • Newmarket
  • 1965-01-01
Lindsay Anderson's ground-breaking short film about a Margate amusement park, which helped to launch a new documentary movement.

O Dreamland

  • Margate
  • 1953
Terrifying public information film presenting the horrific consequences of playing in or near rivers, ponds and other water hazards.

The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water

  • 1973
A passionate poem about language and cultural identity from Scots poet Len Pennie

I’m No Havin Children

  • 2021-06-19

Snowdrift at Bleath Gill

  • Bleathgill
  • 1955
The stirring story of poet Ellis Evans-Hedd Wyn, the Welsh poet posthumously awarded the Eisteddfod chair at Birkenhead in 1917 after failing to return from 1st World War trenches.

Hedd Wyn

  • Trawsfynydd
  • 1992
One of a series of animated films designed to provide instructions on how to survive a nuclear attack.

Protect and Survive

  • 1975-10
The flagship of the GPO Film Unit's output and a cornerstone of British documentary, featuring music by Benjamin Britten and the verse of W.H. Auden.

Night Mail

  • Euston Sta
  • 1936

The Week Elvis Died

  • 1997
Iconic images by photo-pioneer Eadweard Muybridge come to life in this striking video collage.

Muybridge Revisited

  • Fulham
  • 1986
An early classic of Black British cinema about the intriguing social dynamics that arise as a ten shilling note is passed around the black community.

Ten Bob in Winter

  • Westminster
  • 1963
One of the most quaint cinemas you're ever likely to see, The Tudor is a loving recreation of, and tribute to, the classic cinemas of a bygone era.

Tudor Style

  • Comber
  • 1979-01-01
Santos Football Club bring Brazil's world cup talent to Home Park in Plymouth with Pelé playing his beautiful game.

The Day Pele Came to Town

  • Plymouth
  • 1973-03-15
Visitors to the seaside are usually in search of sun and fun, but the people on Blackpool promenade in this fascinating reel from filmmaker Henry Iddon have a much more serious purpose in mind.

Ban the Bomb

  • Blackpool
  • 1964-01-01
Manchester is 'Tickled Pink' with this annual celebration of LGBT life.

Manchester Tickled Pink

  • Manchester
  • 1993-08-01

Return to the Edge of the World

  • Shetland Islands
  • 1978
Female punks have fun boozing, smoking and talking in this fascinating film by London lifestyle chronicler Captain Zip.

Squatparty

  • Putney
  • 1981
Ridley Scott's first film features his younger brother, the late Tony Scott, as a schoolboy playing truant for the day to meander around Hartlepool on his bicycle, lost in his own thoughts.

Boy and Bicycle

  • Hartlepool
  • 1965

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