Arcadia

Bluebells, wisteria and snowdrops feature in this lovely colour film showing the effect of nature on the London suburb of Harrow after the war.

Cuckfield comes together to plan and celebrate the 1977 Silver Jubilee with contributions from the whole community.

Fascinating documentary about the management of the East Anglian Fens, an intricate network of 17th-century waterways carved through peat bogs.

A film highly commended in 1950 by the National Eisteddfod in Caerffili, the Scottish Amateur Film Festival, and Amateur Cine World magazine.

Good composition and a keen eye for an unusual perspective turn what could be a hodgepodge compilation of short travelogues into a visual treat.

A peaceful depiction of Lavenham, Suffolk, the medieval village known for its use in the 1968 film Witchfinder General.

With feeding the nation a wartime priority, agricultural workers are heralded as soldiers of the plough.

The villagers of Radford Semele in Warwickshire know how to have fun: from the eccentrically costumed football players to the joys of the village fete.

You can almost hear the wind in the trees, the gurgling water and the bells for Evensong in this beautifully shot film from Frank Barnitt

The ill-fated dreams of Sid Rawls’ band of ‘ultra hippies’ attempting a self-sufficient communal life on John Lennon’s ‘Beatle Island’.

Fun mixture of natural history and wartime public information.

A rare portrait of Northern Ireland in a time of conflict as “a land where the pace of life is more friendly, where everybody cares and nobody minds”.

With their battered vardo, scruffy kids and assorted horses in tow, Cocker and Ellie are on an “endless odyssey”, visiting Appleby Fair, trying to eke out their own chosen life.

A rare glimpse into the leisure pursuits of ordinary people in pre-war Britain.

A documentary on Burrator reservoir in the Dartmoor National Park

If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise...

A naked woman cavorts innocently at the seaside in this 1940s nudist film, strictly for artists and students only

Do our eyes deceive us? Trick shots galore in this magical tour of London.

The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll's tale, made just 37 years after the novel’s publication and eight years after the birth of cinema.

A magical dream sequence of dancing fairies that seems to draw upon very early moving images of staged dances of fairy tales, beautifully performed by enchanting children.

Spaced-out sitar music and the prog rock grooves of Quintessence soundtrack this psychedelic flashback to Notting Hill Gate in 1970.

Come on a psychedelic journey to Cornwall in this stunning, sensual film.

Disrespectful townie hikers get what's coming to them when the woodland spirits of Knole Park take their revenge.

Pixies pop up everywhere before being banished once again from the town.

Ostrich-riding and other outrageous animal antics at a private zoo in Ampthill, Bedfordshire.

Warning - not safe for work lunch! This public health film on the common house fly is designed to make you squirm

Solomon the guard puma - put your paws up!

Aetherius people join together to help the planet at Holy Mountain

This early Cadbury advert plays like a surreal outtake from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

Pity poor Bonzo. Bought by a couple who quickly tire of his doggie antics, he's now the object of murderous intentions. But can Bonzo redeem himself in time to save his skin?

Excitable or restless? Learn how to control your impulses in this safety film from the National Coal Board

An enigmatic pot-pourri of a film of a village in wartime. Although life appears here as normal, an inauspicious motif seems to lurk within the avant-garde cinematic style.

Meet a very beautiful, very clever girl who adores peaches in Michael Gill's BFI-funded fantasy short.

Eight East Anglian kids trapped by floods must fend for themselves in this wet and windy film adventure.

Powerful and sometimes disturbing account of Britain's defences against enemy attack - made six months before WWII.

The villagers of Cwmgiedd re-enact a Nazi massacre in Czechoslovakia, in Humphrey Jennings’ unforgettable propaganda film.

A key social issues film documentary from the British Documentary Movement, this two-part film follows the establishment of social enterprises in England and Wales.

A call to action contrasting the grand homes of the wealthy with "the appalling shelter of thousands of decent citizens" in London slums.

Poverty and hunger compels angry, jobless workers - including Jarrow's crusaders - to make a historic march to London to petition government.

Fascinating amateur footage of London punks, and a glimpse of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, filmed on the King's Road in 1978.

The deadly downside of Britain's industrial might: smog.

Shocking scenes of Kensington slums and 1930s housing developments offer a sharp contrast with today's reinvented area.

A bittersweet short about a young girl who spends an afternoon playing in Highgate Cemetery where she discovers what the future may have to offer.

This power-packed promotional film for the UK Subs also showcases the distinctive talents of unconventional writer and director Julien Temple.

The might of the British Empire is mobilised for war during 1914 and 1915.

Not-so-special special effects add the magic touch to this kitsch British Rail commercial.

An isolated life can mean that home is nothing more than an “airy tomb”, as imagined by poet and rural parish priest R S Thomas.

Widgey Raphael Newman, the short-lived, extraordinarily-named director of this period piece, has assembled attractive images of Wales but beware the commentary!

To the front line of London's early 1970s' housing crisis in this angry campaign film.

A tour of Pinner Village during its celebratory Pinner Week highlights local landmarks, fun, fancy dress and festivities.

Revellers gather at the Hunt Ball to witness some hornblowing

Partying like it's 1997. We follow a rave DJ instigator rigging up decks in abandoned warehouses, a nosebleed 'techno tourist' who chases the hardcore around Europe and a girl addicted to... partying.

An entertaining study of community arts projects in Hackney, Hoxton and Dalston, before hipsters and Tony Blair.

Author Ewan Clarkson talks of his passion for nature

A Yorkshire teenager begins to see and hear strange things in this unsettling slice of 60s sci-fi.

A life unfolds, from fear of asking for the loo as a child, to being imprisoned in Colditz and sentenced to death by Hitler, and on to becoming a leading player in the world of opera.

What a mental health nurse learns at York Retreat, 1954: from lectures on “failure in human relationships” and insulin, to psychotherapy, electric shock treatment and dancing.

Rocks resembling alien creatures, a giant white horse, wooden mice, a cave where a famous prophetess lived, and a teddy turned to stone.

The pros and cons of quarrying in national parks, and the irony of a state of affairs where what aids the enjoyment of landscape also destroys it.

The beginning of a ground-breaking, award-winning documentary series that would lead the way in wildlife photography.

A man loses everything he has day-dreaming his way through life

After one hundred years what will it take to finally satisfy the hungry grass?

Ken McMullen and Stuart Brisley consider the links between performance art and folk ritual.

One of the most disturbing public safety films depicts six children being picked off one-by-one by deadly farming machinery.

In this surrealist short, John Krish and Michael Gilmour tell a perilous tale at the railway station. Mind the gap - this is going to get scary.

Days of heaven for two young friends in the idyllic wilds of Armley, Leeds.

What does the future hold for Herefordshire's children? A farming inheritance is no longer a given and even the historically rock-solid village life is losing its permanence.

A cinematographic response to Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus with Plath’s own readings of her poetry

Deliciously dark psychodrama about a Docklands bus driver who turns his family home into a second Noah's ark.