Spring Comes to Town

Sam Jeavons is a Black Country horse man through and through and May Day is a time to decorate his wagon and bring some colour to Upper Gornal's streets.

An extraordinary and unexpected snapshot of rural life in wartime in which a young black girl is crowned Queen of the May.

Fabergé animals in a Russian influenced Easter tale narrated by Peter Ustinov

Spring comes to Scotland in the 1950s: feed playful lambs, pick a host of glorious daffodils, and harness your faithful horse to the plough in this lovely amateur colour film.

A fluffy white blizzard - of hundreds of newborn lambs - hits a Reading farm, keeping the shepherd's hands full.

Easter Parade in Hyde Park, April 1958.

Walking down memory lane on a whistle-stop tour of central London, as seen through the eyes of a local filmmaker

Easter Parade in Hyde Park, April 1958.

London, 1959: the Hilton Hotel rises from the ashes, surrounded by derelict houses and bomb damaged streets

Thousands of children honour Queen Victoria's birthday with an Empire Day parade in Hyde Park

Three cheers for women's right to vote! Thousands of 'peaceful, law-abiding Suffragists' - and their hat-waving supporters - converge on Hyde Park.

At the height of Britain's bathing craze, hundreds of sun-worshipping Londoners test the waters at Hyde Park lido.

Directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor dig deep into their thrilling biopic Baltimore, in discussion with Nadia M Oliva.

Actor and writer Joanna Scanlan talks to Mia Bays, director of the BFI's Filmmaking Fund, about her career in film and television.

Horace Ové's striking portrait of the American writer James Baldwin at his sharp-witted best addressing a group of radical West Indian students in 1960s London.

An emotional stand-off takes flight, as teen best friends Ronit and Brennan come to terms with navigating that fuzzy feeling in their stomachs, all whilst learning to skateboard.

While visiting the adoptive family of her eight-year-old biological son, Tara relays advice she gathered from growing up as a queer outcast.

In Taliban controlled Afghanistan, Laili walks into a Chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full body veil from a Talib shopkeeper and face a new future.