Miners Demonstration at Wakefield (1908)

Absorbing overview of coalmining in the early years of nationalisation.

Miners' safety training - marked by stylish animation and gallows humour.

Coal, between the world wars, makes the industrialised world go round and Cory Bros & Co Ltd, with collieries in south Wales and oil refineries across the globe, is a major player.

Memories of Blaenavon Colliery, Monmouthshire, as it nears its end.

Elegiac sponsored film imploring viewers to "allow the sun to penetrate the haze of ignorance" and relieve British cities of pollution.

Deliriously kitsch recruitment ad for the implausibly glamorous world of coalmining.

The wheels on the bus go round and round, bringing toys and joys to pre-schoolers in West Yorkshire.

A once common object in many households becomes transformed into a quirky dancing troupe in this simple homespun animation.

The clinking of the milkman doing his daily rounds turns into a moving tale of romance between the contrasting beverages of day and night.

A cautionary tale of what happens when a husband is left by his wife to fend for himself; forgetting to put tea in the tea pot for one thing.

A nightmare scenario of a pauper’s funeral, as well as being buried alive, brought to life in this whimsical tale of a man laid low with flu.

John Betjeman whimsically appreciates Wakefield and its people - who "are like their houses, unpretentious and a bit grim on the outside".

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.