Chinese New Year

A documentary about the benefits and influences of Chinese immigration on Britain’s home front.

Beautiful, bittersweet tale of love, longing and Elvis. Xiao Mei leaves China for marriage in Britain. But her true desire is to find her family.

Pioneering Chinese feminist and revolutionary Qiu Jin is remembered through mime and dance by the British performer Jacqui Chan.

Will a dispute between China and Britain over Hong Kong harm sales in Birmingham's busy Chinese restaurants?

Extra scenes from the Eng family's home movies, including trips to Germany and China

Enjoy fun in the garden, a picnic and a trip to the beach with the Eng brothers in this amateur film

From Selly Oak to Birmingham's Head Post Office in a wheelchair - how hard could it be?

Don't become a victim of the new fifty penny piece!

A middle class designed city with no style - Arthur Dooley pulls no punches in Birmingham.

An impressively stark documentary study of Birmingham slums - past and present.

He arrived in Britain with £3 and went on to become one of the richest business men in the Midlands. How did Amrat Parmar do it?

Bus timetables are sacrosanct to some but to others there are more important things in life - and faith is one of them.

The Victorian great and good mark the passing of a political titan

For Britons during the Boer War, a welcome opportunity to support the troops - and march alongside them

Factory gate glimpses at - we think - Barrow-in-Furness

Worthing waves at us in this mesmerising early film

Film's first joke? A fresh take on an old prank.

This was one of a series of actuality films made by the Victorian pioneer Birt Acres during 1895. The film is thought to have been shot on June 20, on the occasion of the opening of the Kiel Canal by the German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Acres shot other films at the same time, but they have not survived.