Coventry North West By-election

As the general election is held in the UK, it's polling day for the Clangers on a small blue planet far away.

It's the 1935 general election and Stanley Holloway recites a comic monologue promoting the policies of the National Government.

The Labour Party takes a heartfelt look at Bristol council’s social(ist) housing and education agenda, spinning a 'new story from an old city'.

Slough gets a resounding thumbs-up from a reluctant ratepayer in a surprising 1950s government film.

Party-political hyperbole meets Wacky Races in this spirited cartoon produced for the Conservative Party.

Some remarkably well informed (well, for the most part) children interviewed prior to the 1964 General Election.

Join the Clague family as they zoom up an empty M1 to Stratford upon Avon, Long Itchington and Coventry - a city reborn after its 1940 destruction

Two councils with two different approaches to LGBT rights.

The UK's immigration laws have prevented Dara Singh from seeing his family for a decade. His is one of many sad stories...

The industrial Midlands pioneered textile production; from the framework knitters of Nottinghamshire to the birth of the modern factory in the Derwent valley in Derbyshire.

The surreal presence of barrage balloons on the Coventry skyline gives this home movie an end-of-an-era feel.

Teachers and pupils of 3 schools in Trafford, Stevenage and Coventry make the case for the acceptance of difference without discrimination.

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.

The director talks to Mark Kermode about putting Stephen King's dystopian life-or-death gameshow thriller through its paces. 

Richard Linklater discusses his remarkable and wide-ranging body of work, including Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague.

Daniel Day-Lewis, the ultimate actor’s actor discusses his career in conversation with Mark Kermode.