Essex County Cricket Team

Meet the team - a close encounter with some of the great characters of Lancashire cricket.

Cricket takes a back seat in this film from 1967 which concentrates more on the spectators, their fashions and colourful examples of millinery

Somerset gear up for the 1962 domestic season

Lincolnshire Cricket Club captain Ian Moore is confident when meeting Surrey in the second round of the Gillette Cup, 1974.

A three-day battle between Yorkshire and Surrey in the cricket County Championship leads to a triumphant win for Yorkshire.

Somerset and Nottinghamshire are playing in Cornwall

Hackney Downs School Cadets in athletics training and competition, filmed by teacher Joe Brearley.

London schoolboys demonstrate impressive range of gymnastic moves for the cameras.

The recently married Duchess of York, who would later become the Queen Mother, opens a bazaar in front of dazzled crowds.

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.