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. The cinematic journey of Around China with a Movie Camera contains many films which may never have been seen in China, or at the very least not for over 70 years. These travelogues, newsreels and home movies were made by a diverse group of British and French filmmakers, some professionals, but mainly enthusiastic amateurs, including intrepid tourists, colonial-era expatriates and Christian missionaries.

Mao Zedong was not only a revolutionary leader and thinker, he was also a poet. In poems written in ...

10 May 2007 - China's staggering economic growth has overshadowed a more subtle shift in Chinese soc...

The film explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” Driven by mesmerizing—and sometimes humorous—i...

This documentary highlights the achievements of India in the political, economic, and international ...

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new gener...

Over the last 40 years, China has been transformed out of all recognition. The scale of its growth a...

A documentary covering the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Lucien Bull was a pioneer in chronophotography. Chronophotography is defined as "a set of photograph...
It is a dramatic film, with its colossal explosion and smouldering remains. Within seconds of the ch...

A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Made by Istituto Luce, there is an understanda...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...
A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair beco...
Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the H...

As the 'one country two systems' policy in Hong Kong has slowly eroded, resentment among the territo...