Training London's Fire Brigade - Display at Headquarters 

Celebrate the brave men of the London Fire Brigade during WW1 with this newsreel featuring drills and presentation of medals.

London Fire Brigade's engines bring the streets of London to a standstill as they perform a demonstration for wounded soldiers.

Sponsored film that uses fictional set ups to demonstrate how advances in computing benefit the construction industry.

Fascinating, technical military film made during the Blitz showing how to deal with unexploded bombs in London.

Step into the aftermath of a WWII bombing raid in south London in this startling amateur film.

Ladders, fire engines and ropes are inspected, before we get a long look at the Fire Brigade’s new Lambeth HQ from the river.

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.