Workers Leaving a Factory in Wigan (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.

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

Wet weather fails to dampen a thrilling show of horse-drawn fire wagons.

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

Rose is desperate to celebrate her 60th birthday in style, but her daughter Genevieve is struggling to ignore some recent tragic news about her mum.

A haunting with words is the lure between life and death for a young Cornish poet.

Seagull is a recovering drug addict who is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.

Adeel Akhtar portrays a man on a weekly trek to his nearest JobCentre, entering a state of purgatory through barriers put in place by the system.

Upon returning to her home town for a funeral, a young woman reconnects with the friends she left behind.

Writer-director Lucile Hadžihalilović explains how she spun her own dark fairytale out of Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen.