Royal Visit to Barrow and Launch of HMS Dominion (1903)

Crowds throng the streets for the return of Manchester's Volunteers from South Africa.

Troops play up for the camera in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle.

Some nifty product placement creeps in to this formal portrait of the Lancaster Volunteers.

The might of the British Navy struts its stuff down the Manchester Ship Canal.

The Bolton Artillery Volunteers put on an impressive parade despite the snow. 

Destroyers from the Edwardian Royal Navy filmed from a ship in the Tyne.

Factory gate glimpses at - we think - Barrow-in-Furness

A prestigious occasion for the Vickers Armstrong shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness.

The precision and beauty of shipbuilding in Britain.

The spectacular story of the building of a massive ocean liner.

Paul Rotha’s brilliant film of the building and launch of SS Orion from the shipyards of Barrow-in-Furness.

An epic and electrifying portrait of the county that cradled the industrial revolution.

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.