Okubukwe Kakhulu Unyaka 1939 - 98

Colour amateur documentary from 1939 on life in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, produced by Frances Hotham. Part 1 (South Africa) includes...

An exposition, by means of diagrams and models, of the working principles of the compression ignition or oil engine.

This is a propaganda film made after the establishment of the wartime total mobilization system. The film includes various war efforts, including...

Three shepherds are turned into princes by the Forest Fairy and they go live to their lively castle.

Dufaycolor footage of a visit by George VI to the naval base at Plymouth. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Lady Luck smiles on a reckless secretary who takes a punt on the Irish Sweepstake … but not everyone’s a winner.

Aimed at promoting active Korean participation in the war for the Imperial Japanese Army, the film sees the people of Joseon mobilized into a string...

The second film in the Fantasmagoria series.

The findings of Danish paleontologist Peter Lund. The landscape of the region of Lagoa Santa, the men, the houses and the animals. Some of the caves...

Throughout the 1930s, Margaret Cram directed the same film again and again. An itinerant filmmaker based in Boston, she made her living by traveling...

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

Scenes showing work at the various London docks is followed by shots of buildings and places of interest near the river including Billingsgate and...

An animated Danish commercial from 1939 for Houlbergs sausages.

Focusing on Cracow's Jewish quarter, this film intermingles old and new, using music to enhance the images. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with...

Footage shot by German troops and confiscated by Allied forces of an attack in Warsaw.