Audley Range School, Blackburn (c.1905)

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

They breed them hard in Dudley - running non-stop for 24 hours is nothing to Ron Bentley: his next challenge is to race over 800 miles.

Want to learn to dance the Swedish Masquerade, Dutch Hakke Toone, or maybe the Italian Tarantella? Essex schoolchildren show us how it’s done.

Meet the president leading the haggis hurling revival and learn how delivering lunch became a sport for kilted gentlemen.

A Fine Feat of Endurance. Why swim the Channel when you can go by hydrocycle?

Rare home movie capturing sporting action in 1967 at Stoke Mandeville Stadium, birthplace of the Paralympics.

A show of scouting skills in Blackburn, Lancashire.

Matchstick men and so much more - the work and world of Lawrence Stephen Lowry, recorder of the industrial north.

Mill workers and machines - a detailed look at the Lancashire textile industry.

Dramatised account of Chinese rebels' violent confrontation with Christian missionaries, made in the wake of the Boxer Rebellion.

A majestic Blackpool monument to Queen Victoria is unveiled by Princess Louise.

Rival displays of orderliness and frivolity in a parade of Lancashire schoolchildren.

Laura Mulvey in conversation, following her BFI Fellowship Award.

George Clooney visited BFI Southbank to look back on his life and career.

The Oscar®- winning director of Nomadland discusses her unique approach to filmmaking and the inspiration behind the adaptation of Hamnet.

The director talks to Mark Kermode about putting Stephen King's dystopian life-or-death gameshow thriller through its paces. 

Richard Linklater discusses his remarkable and wide-ranging body of work, including Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague.

Daniel Day-Lewis, the ultimate actor’s actor discusses his career in conversation with Mark Kermode.