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.

A documentary film that includes footage of past Olympics held in different countries with an partic...

Railroad of Hope consists of interviews and footage collected over three days by Ning Ying of migran...

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
A short, early documentary work showing insects exhibiting extreme strength and agility.
Short film about the manufacture of bricks.

In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Al...
Footage of the expedition leaving Antarctica from New Zealand shot by government cameraman James McD...

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...

One Country, Two Systems? No Way! say the youth of Taiwan. But China under President Xi Jinping want...

Amidst the grand walls of the Forbidden City, the film takes us on a deep journey through the ceremo...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through C...

A collection of nude and/or topless scenes from various films featuring actresses who were either fa...
"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray St...

Journey with the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and their conductor Sir Simon Rattle on a brea...
A young pair from Stuttgart fly to Shanghai to hop aboard the textile business of his father while s...