Viceroy's Cup Race

Stunning colour footage showing colonial life in the hills of Assam and bustling activity on the lakes below

Hear the Lama band, see the sacred dances: welcome to Sikkim, in the shadow of the Himalayas.

Rare amateur footage of East India

Evocative travelogue exploring life at the foot of the Himalayas, including tea gardens and a Buddhist shrine

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

Indian high society enjoy themselves at a Calcutta garden party held to welcome the new Viceroy, Lord Irwin.

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.