The Camera is Ours: Britain's Women Documentary Makers

A key social issues film documentary from the British Documentary Movement, this two-part film follows the establishment of social enterprises in England and Wales.

Is your hedge thin and straggly? Don't worry, help is at hand

An unusual mix of pastel, photos, film and line drawings conjures a story of the River Tyne, from its source at the Scottish border to its mouth at South Shields.

Is this the scariest public information film ever? This hard-hitting warning against 'stranger danger' was considered too distressing to be broadcast on television.

Never a dull moment for a rural district nurse in the early days of the NHS.

Documentary warning children about the drawbacks of cigarettes – not least their addictiveness.

Meet the Abrews, a unique showbiz family whose imprint on British culture began in Scotland in the 19th century

Kay Mander's film about the planning for Dunfermline’s post-war reconstruction is a fascinating record of the idealism of mid-20th-century town planning.

A ghost of Brighton's Regency past returns to explore his old haunts in a colourful yarn set in 1950s Sussex-by-the-Sea.

Flock to your local keep fit class - there's a war on and Britain needs its citizens in tip-top shape.

Everyday family life in suburban North London - as seen by folk learning English in the 1950s.

Fun mixture of natural history and wartime public information.

"Why in the height of a world war, should there be this terrific interest in painting?"

This stylish film shows the cramped life of one family in post-war Plymouth, and expands on the contentious plans for the city's rebuilding.

You don't have to be an ornithologist to enjoy this playful documentary about the Farne Islands' avian population

Vivid and alarming safety film shot at Teversal, Thoresby and Welbeck Collieries in Nottinghamshire.

Epic undertaking at Bevercotes Colliery, digging 3000 feet to reach untapped coal seams in Nottinghamshire.

Anyone for a trip to the seaside? From Bournemouth to Margate via Brighton and Folkestone – sunny delights in abundance.

Could the perennial question of what to cook for dinner have been solved forever?

The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds (1940s-style) at a nursery in Guildford.

Dover gets a makeover in this offbeat and pointed public information film.

It’s 1968 and the elderly are on holiday; a Newcastle train goes to the Isle of Wight.

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Harwell's nuclear research establishment and the peaceful applications of atomic energy.

How a thousand years of history have helped the West Country capital to emerge from the blitz as a modern city of art and industry.

Bonnie Edinburgh - a picturesque promotional film to attract tourists to the Scottish capital

Rural life in the Essex villages of Finchingfield and Great Bardfield - and the mixed reactions of older residents to changing times.

The orchards ripen and a Kentish summer blossoms on film.

Milky movie: close-up on Somerset's changing milk and cheese industry

Rise and shine! Newark market calls with a seductive array of produce.

This striking female-focused silent drama muses on the long-term perils of sexually transmitted diseases

The styles, streets and music of 1970s Nottingham are engagingly evoked in this industrial process film.

Building a new harbour at Port Talbot - it’s a man’s world in which the only females are a dredger and two seafaring vessels.

The children of the London Blitz are the focus of this punchy and poignant documentary.

The birdlife of Northumberland's Farne Islands comes under the spotlight in this pioneering documentary from the Secrets of Life nature series.

A subtly charming portrait of agricultural life in the west of England, featuring some fine pedigree cattle.

A charming 1930s geography lesson on dairy farming around the lush pasturelands of Wixenford Farm near Plymouth.

Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks"

It's all action on the home front with civilians on high alert to support the war effort.

Urban nature explored in this wonderful short film looking at the lives, habits and habitats of London’s pigeon population.

Eye-opening drama-doc, originally used in psychiatric nursing training.

Building a larder using soil and straw: this age-old method was a boon to home-front gardeners

How an outbreak of streptococcal infection spreads – droplet by droplet – and how it can be prevented.

Frida Kahlo’s Corset is a short experimental drama that follows a journey of transformation by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) who wore a series of orthopaedic corsets because of impairment.

"They’re not so very different from our own people, are they?" A sensitive depiction of European workers in the UK.

Oil arrives at the Ayrshire coast: this fine documentary by Ruby Grierson tells the story.

Power cuts, housing shortages and exorbitant rents – Aberdeen man Norrie Williamson goes head to head with his greedy landlady

Are your stooking and stacking skills poor? Watch and learn how best to stack your stooks.

Appeal for energetic city workers to get out to farms in their spare time to help out with the harvest of 1946.

A rare outing for a 1945 drama documentary on local studies education in Bishop Auckland by one of Britain's pioneering women directors.

For an impression of what life was like in rural Oxfordshire in the mid-1940s, look no further than this documentary

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

Go with the flow: the marine life of Millport, Ayrshire, ingeniously filmed.

The 1960s and the peak of youth hostelling: hiking around the country, school trips, bunk beds, self-catering and crazy dancing to pop music.