Blackpool. Final Trial

Tricky weather conditions cause some spills in the downhill and ski jumping at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St Moritz.

With the Paralympics even more marginalised than today, these athletes show great determination, dedication, camaraderie and humility.

We're off! Olympic training on the streets of Mansfield as local boy John Whetton prepares for the 1968 Mexico City games.

British "girl athletes" prove themselves in competition with women from around the world at Stamford Bridge.

Special effects galore in this demonstration of fancy swimming and diving, featuring Olympic medallist Belle White.

A rare insight into gymnast Olga Korbut's life at the height of her fame, showing the discipline it takes to be an Olympic champion.

This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Blackpool.

Blackpool Tower is hard to miss in this local version of a 'phantom ride'

Join the Lee family as they tour Windsor Safari Park and its famous Dolphinarium in this film from 1971. Then follow them to Blackpool Beach for pony trekking and donkey rides.

Hold on tight! We're off, riding the wooden rollercoaster at Blackpool's Pleasure Beach.

A tribute to Lancashire, land of industry, leisure, sublime landscape - and laundry detergent

It’s Easter and men, women and children all over England enjoy a day out, be it on the beach, at the races or at the zoo

The director of a documentary about British funk pioneers Cymande joins the band at BFI Southbank to talk about the film.

Plotting world domination, Devil Doctor Fu-Manchu steals plans for a new aero-torpedo in this earliest surviving thrill-a-minute serial instalment.

Filmmakers Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss their documentary Scala!!!, revisiting the legendary and inspirational cinema venue and some of the most notorious films that screened there.

Long thought lost, this Powell-directed promotional short for a veteran’s charity was only rediscovered in 2003.

A poignant, stirring letter from a recently deceased pilot to his mother is read by John Gielgud.

Former Bristol Poet Laureate, Miles Chambers reads a poem specially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the NHS.