Most Viewed Year 1939 - 97

Dufaycolor footage of a visit by George VI to the naval base at Plymouth. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

The story of Syphilis and the methods used to detect and fight it. No details about the symptoms though. No mention of penicillin.

Through a car accident, a young pilot gets to know a girl who works as a fashion model in the city. She leaves her fiancé in front of him and...

Wagon trains bringing supplies are being robbed and Marshal Pat Barrett has been sent to investigate. Posing as an outlaw he gets into Buck's gang....

Scientists demonstrate the wonders of magnified objects.

The second film in the Fantasmagoria series.

A country boy loves the daughter of his boss and godfather. An engineer who comes from the city is interested in the young woman who corresponds to...

Throughout the 1930s, Margaret Cram directed the same film again and again. An itinerant filmmaker based in Boston, she made her living by traveling...

Andy becomes the basketball coach for an all-girls school.

“Between 1926 and 1985, amateur Archie Stewart shot over seventy thousand feet of film. In 1936 he purchased a sound-on-film 16mm camera and...

A visit to one of India's oldest cities.

A story set in 1811 as Napoleon is gathering men to go into war. Eight years later Father Joseph Mohr sits down and writes the song Silent Night.

Scenes from the Handba' festival on New Year's Day in Kirkwall. Winner of the Scottish Prize, The Andrew Buchanan Cup at Scottish Amateur Film...

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".