Energy

Absorbing overview of coalmining in the early years of nationalisation.

Miners' safety training - marked by stylish animation and gallows humour.

Memories of Blaenavon Colliery, Monmouthshire, as it nears its end.

Elegiac sponsored film imploring viewers to "allow the sun to penetrate the haze of ignorance" and relieve British cities of pollution.

Deliriously kitsch recruitment ad for the implausibly glamorous world of coalmining.

Young Socialists take the lead in the struggle against the "Tory dictatorship" led by Margaret Thatcher.

What makes a South Wales Sunshine Girl? Well, the answer may vary depending on whether you ask a chauvinist or a feminist!

A glimpse of the life of a chain-smoking, proud-to-be-gay raconteur-of-sorts and resident of Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff.

A boat is a work of art, as this film illustrates so beautifully.

Miss Clara Deacon, matron (or 'commandant' as the press refer to her) of this pioneering hospital, accompanies the royal patron on his visit.

A mechanical grave digger is co-opted to help with the creation of a garden at Glan Ely High School, Cardiff.

Donald Duck comes home with the Sunday School trippers from Bethel Chapel, Dyserth!

A volunteer cavalry regiment is enthusiastically welcomed home after active service in South Africa.

All ashore! Passengers disembark and crew offload after a long Atlantic crossing.

A stroll in the park for civilised city-dwellers in Edwardian South Yorkshire.

The UK's first purpose-built mosque welcomes a huge crowd of worshippers - and newsreel cameras!

A vicar is caught flirting with an improperly-dressed chorus girl in this saucy silent comedy.

The Stationmaster at York guides us through a typical day, from dawn to dusk.