Congregation Leaving St Mary's Church, Dumfries (c.1901)

Lancashire cotton-workers pile out through the mill gates at dinner time.

An astonishingly crowded Victorian street reveals the vast scale of Tyneside manufacturing.

Bicycles and broomsticks at the ready as workers finish shift at a marine engineering works in Victorian Hull.

Victorian Manchester mill workers enjoy the novelty of a moving picture camera.

A well-dressed church congregation gathers on the elegant portico.

Well-to-do of Cork worshippers leaving St Patrick's Church.

‘Electricity can do almost anything’ – farmers are encouraged to power up their farm

A new Working Girls’ Club offering classes in literacy and domestic tasks to local working-class girls.

These Doonhamers of Dumfries - the 'Queen of the South' - smile for the camera in this 'local topical' film

Startling colour photography of 1920s Britain imbues Claude Friese-Greene’s 1920s road trip around Britain.

A lively group of Scottish primary-school children plays up for the camera.

Dumfries schoolchildren take their turn in the spotlight.

Charlie Hammersley, a student from Northumbria University, explains how Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film holds up a mirror to society. 

The film-makers behind a haunting tale of love and community within a UK immigration detention centre visited the BFI Southbank to discuss their film.

Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio in Conversation at BFI Southbank, discussing the making of One Battle After Another.

Laura Mulvey in conversation, following her BFI Fellowship Award.

George Clooney visited BFI Southbank to look back on his life and career.

The Oscar®- winning director of Nomadland discusses her unique approach to filmmaking and the inspiration behind the adaptation of Hamnet.