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  • 1925
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    Pwllheli Carnival

    Pwllheli Carnival

    1 1925 HD

    Weird and wonderful characters entertain the crowds in this summer's day procession at Pwllheli, Gwynedd.

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  • 1914
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    Army Cross Country

    Army Cross Country

    1 1914 HD

    Private Daly of the Connaught Rangers triumphs in the Aldershot Command annual cross country race, months before the outbreak of WWI.

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  • 1912
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    A Sword Dance Performed before the King and Queen in India

    A Sword Dance Performed before the King and Queen in India

    1 1912 HD

    Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors.

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  • 1949
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    Reconstruction of Hill Street Birmingham

    Reconstruction of Hill Street Birmingham

    1 1949 HD

    An engineering feat: Second city civil engineers complete a new bridge to carry traffic over New Street's tangled railway intersections.

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  • 1915
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    Salving a Steamer

    Salving a Steamer

    1 1915 HD

    “Chicago’s Titanic” the S.S. Eastland, a Great Lakes passenger ship in which 844 people lost their lives, is brought up from the...

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  • 1966
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    Eastbourne: Sun Trap of the South

    Eastbourne: Sun Trap of the South

    8.00 1966 HD

    Charming 60s travelogue inviting us to enjoy the delights of Eastbourne, where the sun always shines!

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  • 1921
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    Running a Cinema

    Running a Cinema

    1 1921 HD

    A comical satire of a cinema program and operation.

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  • 1981
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    Riots and Rumours of Riots

    Riots and Rumours of Riots

    1 1981 HD

    Radical resistance in the postwar British Caribbean community, from the 1948 Nationality Act to the 1958 Brixton riots.

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  • 1987
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    The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits

    The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits

    5.00 1987 HD

    A ritual created and performed by Bruce Lacey.

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  • 1948
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    Charley in New Town

    Charley in New Town

    1 1948 HD

    Meet Charley, your jovial cartoon guide to Britain’s changing towns and cities.

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  • 2005
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    Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers

    Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers

    1 2005 HD

    The BFI's fascinating collection of 60 short films all made before 1911 aims to give wider access to some of the extraordinary film material held in...

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  • 1975
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    Your Turn

    Your Turn

    1 1975 HD

    This PIF cleverly uses the threat of a knock from the Old Bill to deter would-be vandals. However, if we recall the urban landscape of 1970s Britain...

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  • 1984
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    Magpies

    Magpies

    1 1984 HD

    Public information film warning of the dangers of burglary, using magpies instead of human thieves.

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  • 1988
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    Accident in Park Road

    Accident in Park Road

    6.00 1988 HD

    A road safety awareness video aimed at schoolchildren.

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  • 1949
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    Woodenhead

    Woodenhead

    1 1949 HD

    Short road safety film.

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  • 1916
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    Devonshire Hospital Buxton

    Devonshire Hospital Buxton

    1 1916 HD

    Rheumatic soldiers are treated with the latest in hydrotherapy at the Devonshire Hospital in Buxton, Derbyshire.

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  • 1980
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    Great Western Road

    Great Western Road

    1 1980 HD

    Take a virtual stroll down the streets of Glasgow’s iconic Great Western Road.

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  • 2021
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    I've Been Trying to Tell You

    I've Been Trying to Tell You

    6.00 2021 HD

    Do you look back on the optimism of the 1997-2001 era as a lost golden age, or do you see it as a period of naïvety, delusion and folly?...

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  • 2020
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    Let My Body Speak

    Let My Body Speak

    1 2020 HD

    Our bodies store memories. The body does not forget. A childhood in Damascus, OCD, the revolution, falling in love with a woman. My body remembers,...

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  • 1968
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    Black Five

    Black Five

    1 1968 HD

    Black Five is filmed around Carnforth station in Lancashire, a location which had been the setting for the archetypal railway romance, David...

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