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A short animated documentary about love, death, and knitting.

Remarkable amateur footage of Mahatma Gandhi shot by his great nephew in 1947.

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a British youth organisation founded in 1920 as an alternative to the Scout movement. This edition of the Topical...

A 1935 black and white film advertising London and exolting it's most popular tourist attractions.

This film was made by punching circular holes into fully opaque film stock and laying discs of colour film into some of the punched holes. Only the...

The penalties of taking conscious risks are emphasized in three stories of casualties. A heavy load slips, a slippery floor, alighting from a moving...

The children of Peterborough run rings around comedian Tommy Handley and other dignitaries during a city sports day.

Outside the huts of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12 stand the smiling figures of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Dr Edward Wilson. Wilson...

A short stop frame animation following a lonely Inuit who struggles to survive after an oil tanker leaks oil off the coast of Alaska, killing all the...

Wonderful glimpse of the Wimbledon tennis championship at its former home on Worple Road, including some of the era’s top male and female...

Ilford's Fairlop Plain provides the battlefield for ploughing matches between local hands and Essex outsiders.

Contemporary life in Plymouth in the 1960s – plus some history.

Scenes of WWI troops relaxing on Streatham Common, South London in a Topical Budget newsreel.

Wearing giant jewellery, ribbon snipping, and baby kissing are just some of the mayoral responsibilities often performed on camera.

The ruins of Aberystwyth Castle play host to a celebration of national culture.

Time-honoured craftsmanship at Corfe, near Taunton in Somerset.

Blind soldiers from St. Dunstan's Hostel row on Regent's Park Lake.

A crew of not-so-lonely lightshipmen enjoy a festive knees-up - 40 miles out at sea.

This poignant film publicises elections for a new Assembly in Belfast.

A wintry Watford High Street buzzes with busy shoppers.