Me and My Two Friends

A snatched kiss in a railway tunnel, played by real-life married couple GA Smith and Laura Bayley

Fictional treatment of a contemporary atrocity story from the 1900 Boxer rebellion in China.

Waves crash onto a jetty on the Kentish shoreline in one of Britain's earliest surviving films

This was one of a series of actuality films made by the Victorian pioneer Birt Acres during 1895. The film is thought to have been shot on June 20, on the occasion of the opening of the Kiel Canal by the German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Acres shot other films at the same time, but they have not survived.

An exciting finish suggests that this is one of the very earliest British films

A peeping Tom gets a shocking glimpse of stocking in this early take on film voyeurism.

Lifeboat paraded through the streets of Worthing on way to demonstrate a launch

Worthing waves at us in this mesmerising early film

Stunning footage of a lifesaving demonstration

Brief but lively snatch of a game in progress

Join the Blighs on their homeward journey through the Southern counties - calling at Glastonbury and various ancient landmarks east

Workmen set to on the reconstruction of Worthing Pier after it was destroyed by the English weather

A wandering warrior dreams of a new form of expression, in this promo for UNKLE’s album The Road: Part II / Lost Highway Pt. II directed by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones.

A rare glimpse of 1930s London in colour: the Thames has never looked lovelier.

Life is looking up! The war is over and the “Corona” Man can visit his “Corona” families once more, door-to-door.

Cinema advertisement for Marine Lake & Ocean Beach, Rhyl, a popular destination for crowds set on a day's fun on free rides.

Who could deny these advertising claims: "Attractive hair is the ambition of every woman", and "Your family will enjoy Lincoln potatoes"?

Operatic chickens, shrimps and salmon sing-a-long with a paste pot chorus in this vibrantly animated advert for Shippam's