Belfast - No Way Out

Visionary filmmaker Penny Woolcock explores half a century of British urban life using films digitised for Britain on Film, the archive project from BFI and its partner archives.

The tattered wallpaper of part demolished housing contrasts with gleaming new tower blocks. Ladywood in Birmingham may be on the up but what about the forgotten people?

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.

Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas.

An absorbing picture of council services at the beginning of the 1960s, with babies getting polio jabs and girls having braces fitted, while Roots is playing at the Civic Theatre.

A bright and breezy promotional tour of Brum's original mega-mall.

Hangry animals demand better grub in this bizarre advert by E.T. Green

This family favourite is guaranteed to have you singing all the way to the bread bin

Seawards heads a great ship, the biggest of its day

A view down the High Street featuring the Albert Clock, a shot of Queen's Bridge and the docks

Join Belfast’s first female Lord Mayor and reconsider how disabled people navigate the streets of Belfast.

Witness Northern Ireland’s first telecommunications device for Deaf people

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.

Director Jon M. Chu discusses his ground-breaking vision of Oz.

Yorgos Lanthimos sits down with Succession creator Jesse Armstrong to reveal the secret ingredients that underpin his uniquely weird brand of satire.

Director Jan Ole Gerster and actor Sam Riley talk about Islands, a thriller with noirish undertones and echoes of Hitchcock and Highsmith.

Lynne Ramsay discusses her singular career populated by visually intoxicating, ground-breaking and provocative films.