People with a Purpose

Light bulbs, television tubes and nuclear power stations: electrifying the world with AEI.

The good folks of Woolwich & Plumstead appear busiest at their leisure, even finding time to put this film together

Charging horses and blazing guns at the Woolwich Garrison tattoo, leading to a toy soldier massacre.

Woolwich candidates face the voters in the first of 1910's two general elections.

Munitions workers down tools, weeks before Britain enters WWI.

Part of Wonderful London, the BFI National Archive’s programme of restored London travelogues, filmed in the capital in the 1920s.

Over 30 years and 150 projects, the composer shares, with humour and passion, the intricacies of making film music.

Neil selected soundtracks for 127 Hours, Shame, Kick Ass, Control and many more. He discusses the job and its complexities, referencing his own work.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy's adapter reveals his quest for "the poem of the book" and the importance of simplicity: 'Drain the pond to find the fish'.

Composer of The Lives of Others, The English Patient and Betty Blue on intimacy and experimentation.

Lincoln, Braveheart and Magnolia make-up artist Lois Burwell explains how she created some of her most iconic looks, as part of a BAFTA Masterclass.

British cinematographer of The Hurt Locker, Captain Phillips, Hillsborough and Riff Raff reviews the art of the moving image.