One of Werner Herzog's most acclaimed and audacious films, Fitzcarraldo tells the incredible story of Brian Sweeney ...

Lantern-jawed space hero Dan Dare - sensational cover star of weekly British strip cartoon Eagle - had been dealing with dastardly alien foes since 1950. His exploits also provided the basis for a ...

Powell and Pressburger's most personal and unusual film remains one of the remarkable films in British cinema, delighting and surprising at every turn. Evoking Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the film ...

From Victorian voyeurism to Soho striptease: how a hidden film industry emerged to satisfy the sexual appetites of (male) viewers.

Poetry was Ellis Evans' passion- his life's ambition to be chaired at a National Eisteddfod. He achieved this at the Birkenhead Eisteddfod of 1917. Unfortunately, he never knew of his success as he ...

The British Egg Marketing Board worked with PR firm Ogilvy and Mather to produce a long-running series of commercials extolling the health benefits of eggs for breakfast. Here, the young star of the ...

The Leominster Improvements Society's ploughing match of October 1955 was held at Broadward. Local businessman Frank Dale filmed these scenes that show, even in the mid-1950s, the use of horses was ...

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British cinema boasts a long history of carefully coded queerness, but for much of the 20th century explicit depictions of gay life in drama or documentary were more or less taboo. Gay men were ...

Who knows what nature intended, but these folks certainly seem to be having a whale of a time. The Spielplatz naturist resort in Hertfordshire was a decade old when these scenes were filmed, founded ...

Home movies are intimate catalogues of everyday life: birthdays and holidays, childhoods and neighbourhoods. Each reel is a private scrapbook - memories of cherished people, places and times committed ...

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