Woman with a Movie Camera

World in Action interviews the residents of Haycroft Road, Brixton as a controversial by-election stokes concerns about race and immigration.

A young black ballerina rejects prejudice and finds her African spirit in Swan Lake.

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.

Dover gets a makeover in this offbeat and pointed public information film.

Is your hedge thin and straggly? Don't worry, help is at hand

Power cuts, housing shortages and exorbitant rents – Aberdeen man Norrie Williamson goes head to head with his greedy landlady

Immerse yourself in the work of Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti - icons of the Mexican Renaissance.

Anja Kirschner and David Panos investigate the financial crisis from its European epicentre - Greece.

Theatre director Steve Pearl talks about his chance meetings with a female ventriloquist.

The concluding episode in Anja Kirschner and David Panos' series of films on the Greek financial crisis.

The global financial crisis viewed through the prism of modern Greece.

The instability of memory comes to the fore when artist Lindsay Seers' step-sister Christine is involved in a moped accident which severely damages her memory.

Writer M. Anthony Penwill, an occult photography expert, recalls how his meeting with Ted Serios led him to encounter the artist Lindsay Seers.

Eitienne, a neuroscientist who is working around ideas of self awareness, is haunted by his patient, who he calls 'Marathon Man' a man who cannot move his own body unless he sees it.

In the second in the series of Emily Wardill films, Eitienne the neuroscientist meets Georgia, a woman with whom he is able to connect and they fall in love.

Eitienne's dates with different women explore proprioception through a contemporary situation.

An overworked neuroscientist is encouraged to begin online dating.

Eitienne the neuroscientist delivers a lecture to students that explores ideas of self-awareness.

Is this the scariest public information film ever? This hard-hitting warning against 'stranger danger' was considered too distressing to be broadcast on television.

A rare outing for a 1945 drama documentary on local studies education in Bishop Auckland by one of Britain's pioneering women directors.

Bonnie Edinburgh - a picturesque promotional film to attract tourists to the Scottish capital

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

Autobiographical account of a mother-daughter relationship, exploring beauty standards and female sexuality.

Vivid and alarming safety film shot at Teversal, Thoresby and Welbeck Collieries in Nottinghamshire.

Go with the flow: the marine life of Millport, Ayrshire, ingeniously filmed.

A woman remembers her past while travelling on the London Underground

Meet the Abrews, a unique showbiz family whose imprint on British culture began in Scotland in the 19th century

A parade of colourful fashions wearing their synthetic brand with pride

A powerfully bittersweet image of the loneliness and sacrifice in migration stories, centred on a Nigerian-British family

Milky movie: close-up on Somerset's changing milk and cheese industry

Kay Mander's film about the planning for Dunfermline’s post-war reconstruction is a fascinating record of the idealism of mid-20th-century town planning.

Everyday family life in suburban North London - as seen by folk learning English in the 1950s.

The Night Before Christmas meets Toy Story in this charming British cartoon from 1958.

"Dad... I want a bike!” Fun animated campaign aimed at 50s parents and their over-eager offspring.

A cartoon fantasy brings fabric patterns to life in a literal soap opera - yet even here the reality of Home Front life creeps in

Cartoon propaganda short sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow

A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short

A talking cabbage plant will win you over in this Second World War cartoon trailer, which has a surprising charm.

Flock to your local keep fit class - there's a war on and Britain needs its citizens in tip-top shape.

The birdlife of Northumberland's Farne Islands comes under the spotlight in this pioneering documentary from the Secrets of Life nature series.

Fun mixture of natural history and wartime public information.

Urban nature explored in this wonderful short film looking at the lives, habits and habitats of London’s pigeon population.

Rise and shine! Newark market calls with a seductive array of produce.

Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks"

It's all action on the home front with civilians on high alert to support the war effort.

The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds (1940s-style) at a nursery in Guildford.

This stylish film shows the cramped life of one family in post-war Plymouth, and expands on the contentious plans for the city's rebuilding.

"Why in the height of a world war, should there be this terrific interest in painting?"

Innocent bunnies face an onslaught of badgers, bombs and birds of prey in this black comedy masquerading as a nature film.

A boy and his cat make mischief in the snow at South Shields in this captivating hand-drawn childrens animation created by Sheila Graber.

Barbie dolls in pink battle khaki killing machines in a Christmas animation that cocks a snook at the “Disney Doctrine”.

Chomping alligators, a boomerang throwing kangaroo, a turkey in Turkey, and an angry lion, all mollified by a world touring, bumbling Santa.

A classic Christmas carol brought joyously to life in this engaging and colourful Sheila Graber animation, with help from her school class.

Learn how to speak Geordie with a riotous animation of Scott Dobsons popular vernacular lessons.

An unusual mix of pastel, photos, film and line drawings conjures a story of the River Tyne, from its source at the Scottish border to its mouth at South Shields.

This jaunty hand-drawn animation charts the history of womens revolutionary road to freedom in the North East - from Stone Age sister to suffragette of the twentieth century.

"They’re not so very different from our own people, are they?" A sensitive depiction of European workers in the UK.

Appeal for energetic city workers to get out to farms in their spare time to help out with the harvest of 1946.

Epic undertaking at Bevercotes Colliery, digging 3000 feet to reach untapped coal seams in Nottinghamshire.

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

Startlingly beautiful time-lapse photography of the gardener’s nemesis – the dandelion – and finally, a solution?

Anyone for a trip to the seaside? From Bournemouth to Margate via Brighton and Folkestone – sunny delights in abundance.

Are your stooking and stacking skills poor? Watch and learn how best to stack your stooks.

The exhilaration of spring in the country – blossom, piglets, ducklings and more delights on the farm.

Much loved actress Jessie Matthews directs this action-packed wartime short starring John Mills and Dulcie Gray.

Could the perennial question of what to cook for dinner have been solved forever?