Grandma Despina

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957),on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the...

Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy and obser...

A year after Betti's passing, her children and grandchildren are still clearing out a house full of objects. Through them, they begin to remember and...

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions a...

Documentary about the making of Buster Keaton's silent comedy classic, Sherlock Jr. (1924).

A nervous, careless recording of a trip through India and Nepal at the beginning of the 1970s. Fleeting impressions of faces, landscapes, temples, peo...

A languid, beautifully shot collection of landscapes, edited into a whimsical and touching film.

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrate...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains...

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China. Th...