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

During the First World War, the shipbuilding industry was more important than ever to Britain. In this fragment of a newsreel, shipbuilders have some fun by competing to set the world record for ...

A short docudrama exploring the history of sex in the homosexual community from the 1970s to the present day, and how the internet has changed the way gay men meet forever.

Before the Paralympics made disabled people into Superhumans, the Disabled Living Foundation offered a more genteel perspective of disabled people at sport and leisure in the 1970s. Birdwatching, ...

A freight train travelling between Kirkby Stephen and Barnard Castle has become snowbound in the Westmorland hills. The Motive Power, Operating and Engineering Departments go to work with snowploughs ...

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

Man creates woman in his magic drawing, but as she is liberated from her frame prison she starts to demand more. Walter Booth was 'lightning sketch' artist and maker of 'trick' films for Robert Paul.

Even David Attenborough hasn’t filmed the Ungle-Wungle bird. It took four animators working in their spare time to bring this rare creature to the screen. Bob Godfrey, Vera Linnecar, Richard Taylor ...

Among all surviving examples of the 'phantom ride' train journey film, this is one of the most drop-dead gorgeous. Filmed in 68mm by the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company, it takes in tunnels, ...

To follow the acclaim for An American in Paris, producer Arthur Freed charged screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green with writing a musical based around some of his own most popular early songs.

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 ...

Before Gregory's Girl, Bill Forsyth mate this equally hilarious caper about a group of unemployed teenagers who hatch a plan to steal a job lot of stainless steel sinks. Long championed by the likes ...