Coal on the Doorstep

Cowboys, chess and carnival queens in this wonderful colour film made to mark the “new Elizabethan age” in Southgate’s Coronation celebrations in 1953.

Filmmakers Mitchell and Kenyon conduct an evocative ride through Edwardian Nottingham.

Touching short about the friendship between a white boy and a black girl in 1960s Notting Hill.

A Chinese-American restaurant worker falls in love with an 18th century Qing dynasty god, who visits him at night and leads him on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery.

Peter Greenaway casts the ubiquitous red telephone box in a starring role, supported by a thread of stories and conversations.

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

Life in Fife is changing, thanks to North Sea gas.

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.