Born to Boats

The famous Swan Hunter shipyards on the Tyne grease the slipway for another stirring launch in the prosperous 1950s.

Barnstaple's experimental concrete-hulled ship gets a visit from a jolly Italian admiral.

There’s breathtaking footage of the London’s docks at their bustling peak in this informative film celebrating the work of the Port Of London Authority.

Paul Rotha’s brilliant film of the building and launch of SS Orion from the shipyards of Barrow-in-Furness.

Two of the earliest surviving editions of the Topical Budget newsreel, released in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster.

The iconic Cunard White Star liner leaves the shipyard of her birth and ventures seawards for the first time.

It's the first weekend of July 1901, and high society are on the Thames

Don your straw boater and join Victorians at play as you potter down the river at Henley-on-Thames

Jolly boating weather as the hordes descend on Henley for the Regatta.

Hunger marchers demonstrate and the London season opens: the contrast between rich and poor in 1930s Britain

Visit the 1974 Royal Regatta in this film from the Central Office of Information

From Lewes to York, Pathe Pictorial takes a whistlestop tour of the picturesque sights of England

Three years after their father passed, a family of four women come together through a series of phone calls spanning over three months.

A comedy-drama animation about two best friends growing up in the same world but experiencing it completely differently.

Samona Olanipekun explores the concepts of home, identity and belonging, from the starting point of the theme of globalisation.

Compelling story of a complex relationship between an ​imperious​ ​father and his son.

Three African American fathers unravel the incomparable partnership of forgiveness and community.

A conceptual film following musical artist Jords’ quest to serendipity. The Tree of Life’ is the cornerstone of the film as he battles to triumph through grief.