Hong Kong East Meets West

Join a group of ex-pats on a tour around Hong Kong, long before it became defined by its skyscraper skyline.

The famous island is only part of Hong Kong, as this intrepid amateur explorer-cum-filmmaker reveals in this intriguing travelogue.

Striking snapshots of life in a colonial outpost in the 1930s.

Scenes of typhoon-torn Hong Kong captured by a local resident.

Christmas decorations jostle for attention among thousands of street signs in this amateur exploration of Hong Kong Island’s busy streets.

Poignant amateur footage records the aftermath of one of the worst typhoons in Hong Kong's history.

Home-movie snapshots of life and work in Shantou in Guangdong Province, South China.

Vivid views of pre-war Hong Kong.

Striking snapshots of life in a colonial outpost in the 1930s.

Staggering views of 1920s Hong Kong capture the contradictory cocktail of East meets West on this outpost island.

Excitement fills the air as Hong Kong steps out to party.

The daily grind for Hong Kong dockers and farmers, captured by an amateur filmmaker.

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.