Jewish Pensioners' Controversial Pools Win

Extremely rare insight in the role of a Hasidic woman, featuring a mother-daughter team who live in North London.

Jewish people - and a few Gentiles - muse on what it means to be Jewish in 1960s Britain

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe

A Jewish Eastender recalls growing up in poverty in the 1930s and being part of a community now long gone

An elderly Jewish man journeys to Nazi Germany to track down a refugee’s mother in this extraordinary drama

On the eve of his 50th birthday, lonely north London barber Mr Figg entertains the possibility of marriage

Anglia Television report on Cindy Willis, a seventeen year old who rides a motorbike around the Wall of Death at the fair by Southend Pier.

Join this happy family on a jolly to Southend - visiting the mile long pier, the replica Golden Hind, a jellied eel stall and lured by posters promising medieval torture

A nostalgic look at Westcliffe-on-Sea and Southend, from the Duncan Brand Film Collection - with quiet streets, modish shoppers and a famous mile long pier

It's oil that keeps the Essex seaside town warm and cosy - and this film shows how.

The eloquent voice-over, lively music and fifties fashions set the scene in this promotional film for the holiday resort of Southend-on-Sea.

The majestic ‘Royal Eagle’ Paddle Steamer transports eager day-trippers from ‘the smoke’ for some fresh air and fun on Southend Pier

A young Palestinian woman crosses the Israeli border illegally to find her long-lost brother, who she hopes will be her ticket to a new life.

Beautiful NHS fundraiser, setting Michael Rosen’s poem to powerful archive images.

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.

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.