Chief Guide at Hyderabad Rally

Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry

Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe

Rare amateur footage of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka

The Uzielli family takes to the water in Visakhapatnam, southern India

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath, filmed in remarkable colour by ‘envoy of the Raj’ Clarmont Skrine

Amateur film capturing life and buildings in and around Kochi, in Kerala, south-west India.

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.