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.

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...

Three farming families in Hanyuan, China, strive to give their children a good life in the midst of ...

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In 1946, Heidi is entrusted to a Swiss family by her father. He will never come back for her. Today,...
A compilation of excerpts from old Helsinki-themed documentaries and new material.

The Greek shadow puppetry began 130 years ago. A student of Greek shadow puppetry travels to China, ...

The Chinese company Huawei wants to expand 5G worldwide and is well advanced in the development of t...

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The city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for a million people yet remains completely emp...

Footage of Wuhan, China, during the coronavirus quarantine.
“Convalescing, when you don't have to participate in the world. Time to read, to dream, to look - th...

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
Compilation short film about the Communist Revolution and Soviet Union.

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...