Eccentric Club Entertain Wounded Soldiers

A humble scrub is all it takes to get these French troops in a lather.

The maiden flight of Britain's first successful rigid airship – just don’t call it a zeppelin…

A tramp steals the clothes from a scarecrow, but when he realises two couples are using its pockets to pass messages, he sees an opportunity.

Newlywed Tubby fancies another man's typewriter and ends up in hot water with his new wife

Preston North End play Liverpool (probably) in a regional football competition during WWI.

Goat farming, salmon farming and copper mining all feature in this enlightening oddity.

A mermaid, a fat man in a barrel and water-bound jockeys all appear in this brilliant short showing Londoners taking part in the Molesey Regatta.

The Thames Valley floods - local residents put on their wellies and a stiff upper lip while the news media descends...

Part of Wonderful London, the BFI National Archive’s programme of restored London travelogues, filmed in the capital in the 1920s.

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.