BFI National Archive

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey...

In 1908, amateur naturalist and pioneering filmmaker Percy Smith stunned early cinema goers with his footage of the juggling fly. Hailed as the...

As part of the 2017 UK/India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the...

Compilation of EARLY TRICK FILMs using various techniques 'to make the fantastic appear real'. Intertitles occur throughout.