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Training and duties of a British policeman.

This short film features two atmospheric scenes from Shakespeare's famous tragedy: Act II Scene 2, the murder scene, and Act V Scene 1, with Lady...

Butt-sniffing action abounds as five otherwise ordinary members of the public get in touch with their primal instincts.

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson.

Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together...

Historically, the queer community has not been portrayed in mainstream culture as being capable of protecting children and young people. Yet my uncle...

A documentary on modern British farming.

An overview of the free healthcare available for children, and the environmental improvements that led to increased public well-being in Britain.

Rufus is a child with an extraordinary obsession: a burning, inþamed desire for anything red. Driven by this impassioned, scarlet fixation,...

Miranda's Letter takes as a starting point the 'missing women' in Shakespeare, in this instance, The Tempest, and imagines what Miranda's mother...

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making and broadcasting of pedagogical radio shows on the BBC.

As part of the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the...

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.

Untung and Nesti really love their 6 year old son who has autism. Their daily life becomes more challenging because both of their parents are...

Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer.

Instead of learning sign-language, deaf children are taught to speak and lip-read so that they might interact with others as easily as possible. This...

In the run up to the 1945 general election, the film focuses on the electoral race of one of the 640 local constituencies in Britain, that of...

A Record of the Great Social Experiment of "Evacuation". During the first three days of war one million children were moved to places of safety in...

Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.