British Paramount News No. 251

Extremely rare insight in the role of a Hasidic woman, featuring a mother-daughter team who live in North London.

Jewish people - and a few Gentiles - muse on what it means to be Jewish in 1960s Britain

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe

All good pals and jolly good company! A syndicate of Jewish pensioners from Southend celebrate their big win on the football pools.

A Jewish Eastender recalls growing up in poverty in the 1930s and being part of a community now long gone

An elderly Jewish man journeys to Nazi Germany to track down a refugee’s mother in this extraordinary drama

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.