Turn Out of the Wigan Fire Brigade (1902)

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.

Girls gut herring on the quay at North Shields while a Showman tries to stir up trouble.

A black miner makes an intriguing addition to an already captivating film of coal workers up from their pit.

A flood of Lancashire cotton workers and their children at the end of another shift.

Glistening brass and galloping horses thrill the crowds at a municipal Fire Brigade drill.

Victorian Manchester mill workers enjoy the novelty of a moving picture camera.

The flagship of the GPO Film Unit's output and a cornerstone of British documentary, featuring music by Benjamin Britten and the verse of W.H. Auden.

The short-lived minnows Wigan Borough F.C. take on the mighty Sheffield Wednesday in the third round of the FA Cup.

Ironfounders and engineers head home after morning shift at Pagefield Works.

Well-heeled Edwardian workers head home after work.

A lively crowd surround the camera filming a tram leaving Wigan Market Place.

Men and boys (and a few girls) mark Edward VII's coronation on the picturesque cobbled streets of central Wigan.

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.