Henley Finals Witnessed by Enormous Crowds

The intrepid Lieutenant Pimple thwarts foreign enemies in an action-packed wartime spy spoof.

On the brink of invasion, holidaymakers promenade while refugees shelter in beach huts on the Belgian coastline in 1914.

Inventive WWI propaganda in which a rejected volunteer foils a German plot to blow up Parliament.

A well-acted early version of Charles Dickens' much loved Christmas story, featuring some impressive ghost sequences.

Cairo street scenes, the pyramids, the majestic Nile and a visiting Lord Kitchener in a gorgeous tinted travelogue.

A mysterious pair of gloves from an ancient Egyptian tomb cause chaos in this silent 'trick' comedy.

It's the first weekend of July 1901, and high society are on the Thames

Jolly boating weather as the hordes descend on Henley for the Regatta.

Don your straw boater and join Victorians at play as you potter down the river at Henley-on-Thames

Hunger marchers demonstrate and the London season opens: the contrast between rich and poor in 1930s Britain

Visit the 1974 Royal Regatta in this film from the Central Office of Information

From Lewes to York, Pathe Pictorial takes a whistlestop tour of the picturesque sights of England

Laura Mulvey in conversation, following her BFI Fellowship Award.

George Clooney visited BFI Southbank to look back on his life and career.

The Oscar®- winning director of Nomadland discusses her unique approach to filmmaking and the inspiration behind the adaptation of Hamnet.

The director talks to Mark Kermode about putting Stephen King's dystopian life-or-death gameshow thriller through its paces. 

Richard Linklater discusses his remarkable and wide-ranging body of work, including Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague.

Daniel Day-Lewis, the ultimate actor’s actor discusses his career in conversation with Mark Kermode.