Hastings Sea Angling Festival

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.

Post- war Hastings needs to brace itself for change in this short film from the Town Planning Department

Concluding Michael Smith and Maxy Bianco's trilogy on Britain's coastal edgelands, this films looks specifically at the bohemian eccentricity of Hastings.

A plaque commemorating the first theatre in Hastings is unveiled and Stone Age dwellers take to the lake for a race.

Hastings looks marvellous in this sumptuous colour film from the late 1930s - complete with sunbathing, swimming and being slapped with a fish

Join the Youngs as they tour a number of historic coastal towns and resorts during a May holiday in the early fifties

Town criers test their vocal mettle and there's a comic knees-up in this curious tinted newsreel item

Writer-director Laura Carreira talks to Nia Childs about her debut feature, On Falling.

Writer, director and performer Amrou Al-Kadhi talks to Rico Johnson-Sinclair about their debut feature.

Payal Kapadia discusses her Cannes prize-winning and Bafta-nominated drama with Ashanti Omkar.

The interwoven stories of four best friends who reunite in the UK, thirty-five years after training together as nurses during their teens in Ferozepur, Punjab.

A satirical take on the healthcare service announcements of the 1960s and 70s.

A short animation that offers a window into the world of children’s palliative care.