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.

A television crew documents a day in the life of a Sunderland gymnastics champion and Tokyo Olympics competitor.

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.