Over a century ago, Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon roamed Britain and Ireland filming the everyday lives of people at work and play. For around 70 years, 800 rolls of nitrate film sat in sealed barrels in the basement of a shop in Blackburn. Miraculously rediscovered by Nigel Garth Gregory and later restored by the BFI, this now ranks as one of the most exciting film discoveries of recent times. Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland is a unique and vivid record of Ireland at the start of the twentieth century. The collection contains 26 films made in Ireland between May 1901 and December 1902. Much of this material was unseen for over 100 years. The films include street scenes of Dublin, Wexford and Belfast; the Cork International Exhibition, scenic routes from Cork to Blarney Castle and more. They are accompanied by piano and fiddle music and commentary read by Fiona Shaw.
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...
For more than forty years, British journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent c...
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the T...
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...
Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...
Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...
During World War II, the photographer Francisco Boix and other Spanish Republican prisoners of the M...
The rock-wild youth of the 1960s during the apparitions of their idols.
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed...
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though t...