Rough Sea at Roker (1901)

Worthing waves at us in this mesmerising early film

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

A vicarious ocean-going experience

Dover’s Admiralty Pier could be the setting for these Victorian shots of waves breaking.

Breaking waves at an unidentified coastal location

Intrepid tourists brave the great waves breaking on the marina wall at Brighton

An intimate portrait of domestic life in 50s Roker featuring family, football and cricket.

A sketch of river life on the Wear as Sunderland’s industrial scene begins its slow decline.

Filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and curator Matthew Barrington discuss Frederick Wiseman’s High School with Sandra Hebron.

Rose is desperate to celebrate her 60th birthday in style, but her daughter Genevieve is struggling to ignore some recent tragic news about her mum.

A haunting with words is the lure between life and death for a young Cornish poet.

Adeel Akhtar portrays a man on a weekly trek to his nearest JobCentre, entering a state of purgatory through barriers put in place by the system.

Seagull is a recovering drug addict who is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.

Upon returning to her home town for a funeral, a young woman reconnects with the friends she left behind.