The Story of Petroleum

Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of their exploitation on the environment in various countr...

Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.

Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraord...

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...

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957),on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the...

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and became fully independent states. BBC News Persia and...

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 environmental measures taken by the oil industry at the Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetlands.

Documentary about the making of Buster Keaton's silent comedy classic, Sherlock Jr. (1924).

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

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrate...