Black Diamonds

Absorbing overview of coalmining in the early years of nationalisation.

Miners' safety training - marked by stylish animation and gallows humour.

Coal, between the world wars, makes the industrialised world go round and Cory Bros & Co Ltd, with collieries in south Wales and oil refineries across the globe, is a major player.

Memories of Blaenavon Colliery, Monmouthshire, as it nears its end.

Elegiac sponsored film imploring viewers to "allow the sun to penetrate the haze of ignorance" and relieve British cities of pollution.

Deliriously kitsch recruitment ad for the implausibly glamorous world of coalmining.

An eye-opening, albeit rough-edged, look at the modern rebuilding of the historic St. Mary’s bridge in 1950s Doncaster.

This strange early 1950s stereoscopic 3-D film is a colourful document of the Co-operative Wholesale Society in Doncaster

Snow is no barrier for 74 year old Helena as the propellers get fired up on her Hornet Moth and off she flies over the hills of South Yorkshire.

This harrowing look at the realities of farm and child labour in 1904 reveals the residues of feudalism persisting into the twentieth century.

A well-respected community figure is laid to rest in Edwardian South Yorkshire.

Countless men, women and children spill out on to the screen from "The Plant" at the heart of the Yorkshire railway town.

Filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and curator Matthew Barrington discuss Frederick Wiseman’s High School with Sandra Hebron.

A haunting with words is the lure between life and death for a young Cornish poet.

Rose is desperate to celebrate her 60th birthday in style, but her daughter Genevieve is struggling to ignore some recent tragic news about her mum.

Adeel Akhtar portrays a man on a weekly trek to his nearest JobCentre, entering a state of purgatory through barriers put in place by the system.

Seagull is a recovering drug addict who is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.

Upon returning to her home town for a funeral, a young woman reconnects with the friends she left behind.