
01 Jan 1935

Trip to Manipur
Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.
A lovingly crafted home movie charting the maiden voyage of the Brown family's new yacht.
01 Jan 1935
Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.
25 May 2005
Equal parts punk and psychedelia, the Flaming Lips emerged from Oklahoma City as one of the most bracing bands of the late 1980s. The Fearless Freaks documents their rise from Butthole Surfers-imitating noisemakers to grand poobahs of orchestral pop masterpieces. Filmmaker Bradley Beesely had the good fortune of living in the same neighborhood as lead Lip Wayne Coyne, who quickly enlisted his buddy to document his band's many concerts and assorted exploits. The early footage is a riot, with tragic hair styles on proud display as the boys attempt to cover up their lack of natural talent with sheer volume. During one show, they even have a friend bring a motorcycle on stage, which is then miked for sound and revved throughout the performance, clearing the club with toxic levels of carbon monoxide. Great punk rock stuff. Interspersed among the live bits are interviews with the band's family and friends, revealing the often tragic circumstances of their childhoods and early career.
02 Apr 1959
A fun tour of 1950s West End with international film star Yoko Tani.
08 Jun 1947
Rare amateur footage of East India.
23 Apr 2025
As historic ships vanish from British waters, a group of passionate volunteers fights to save the Balmoral—a 1949 passenger vessel moored in Bristol’s iconic harbour—battling time, bureaucracy, and financial struggles to preserve a piece of maritime history before it’s lost forever.
20 Jun 2011
Experts rebuild iconic sections of the Titanic, using shipbuilding industry methods of a hundred years ago.
16 Apr 2022
The virtually untold story of the supersize steamship’s construction: how 15,000 men toiled day and night in life-threatening conditions to create a state-of-the-art floating city.
27 Jan 2023
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01 Jan 1956
A collection of amateur films made by photographer Roderic Vickers and friends.
28 Jun 2013
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01 Aug 1947
Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.
01 May 1962
Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.
Documents the Cockatoo Island Dockyard occupation and industrial actions of 1989.
01 Oct 1941
An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.
06 May 1934
A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.
01 Aug 1933
Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.
01 Aug 1937
This amateur film gives us a fair idea of the opulent life enjoyed by members of the British government in India.
01 Mar 1951
A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.
15 Apr 2003
A group of teenagers from Flint, Michigan filmed themselves kidnapping and terrorizing a new acquaintance, before taking her out to a woods and dumping her in a shallow grave. They then taunted their terrified and blindfolded victim asking if she had any last requests before they cut her throat. But was the kidnap real or just a game? Three days later the tape was in the hands of the police and the 5 teenager friends were in custody facing life imprisonment. This program talks to the people at the heart of this story - including two of the defendants - in an attempt to understand what really happened in the woods around Flint last year. It also screens the video of the 'abduction'. What is revealed is an extraordinary and disturbing record of a night when something went terribly, terribly wrong.
01 Jun 1940
Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.