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Striking, illuminating and sometimes surprising images of black culture and community, spanning over a century of British film and TV. Head to BFI Player to explore the full collection: http://player.bfi.org.uk/collections/black-britain-on-film/ (UK only).
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI. These stage-managed messages to the West Indies are testament to Britain's reliance on its colonies in WWII.
Unseen for years due to the fragility of the materials, 'Springtime in an English Village' offers an extraordinary and unexpected snapshot of rural life in wartime. After a fairly predictable openi...
Unseen for many years, this documentary short was made by the Colonial Film Unit towards the end of WWII for overseas distribution. The film is silent - it would have been shown to audiences throug...
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI. A party of Northern Nigerian dignitaries in traditional dress visit the Tower of London, where they find themselves as much the focus of attention as the...
Extract from Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11 (1949) The highlight of this 1949 issue is the visit of American actor and singer Paul Robeson to Woolmet Colliery near Edinburgh. Robeson was also a reno...
The black stars of today and tomorrow were out in force at this year's London film festival. Ahead of the BFI's Black Star season - a nationwide series of screenings celebrating the range, power an...
How an infuriating encounter at an ad agency prompted Herzog to ditch a YouTube series about the internet in favour of making his feature-length connected-world documentary Lo and Behold... and oth...
Actors Florence Pugh joins debut William Oldroyd to discuss their period drama Lady Macbeth, in which Pugh plays a defiant young wife struggling against suffocating society norms. Also on stage are...
London mayor Sadiq Khan introduces the premiere of wartime comedy-drama Their Finest, set in the world of propaganda filmmaking during the Blitz. Gemma Arterton, Bill Nighy and Sam Claflin join dir...
Writer/director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver/American Gigolo) talks about working with Nicolas Cage on his crime comedy Dog Eat Dog, in which Cage co-stars with Willem Dafoe as two ex-jailbirds who p...
Renowned children's author Raymond Briggs says how moved he is to see his graphic novel Ethel and Ernest brought to the big screen. The film's director Roger Mainwood and producer Camilla Deakin jo...
From casting Christopher Lloyd to filming with ace cinematographer Robbie Ryan in a Lynchian small-town, Irish director Billy O'Brien discusses his chilling adaptation of Dan Wells' cult novel abou...
Stars Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Sharlton Copley and Michael Smiley join Ben Wheatley to send the London film festival out in a blaze of glory with their ballsy action movie set in 1970s Boston....
"There's only two things I'm sure about: I'm black, and I'm a Londoner," says director Steve McQueen as he takes to the stage to accept his BFI fellowship award from Michael Fassbender. Kelly Reich...
The celebrated young Canadian director Xavier Dolan talks through some of his unique creative decisions on the sumptuous melodrama It's Only the End of the World, which stars Marion Cotillard and L...
Actors Michael Fassbender and Lyndsey Marshal join director Adam Smith and writer Alastair Siddons on stage to answer questions at the premiere of Trespass against Us, a riotous crime saga set to a...
Abel Gance's legendary silent epic, digitally restored with a newly recorded score by Carl Davis, hits cinemas nationwide from 11 November 2016 #BFINapoleon
The creator of the show about how our reliance of technology is turning on us talks about series three, which includes stories of an Uber from hell, video games with real world consequences and a s...
Aged just 17 and 15 respectively, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey had just filmed Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). The pair relate their experiences (one story concerns their co-star ...
Ahead of Moonlight's screening at the London film festival, the film’s stars and its director discuss making this powerful and emotional story that follows a young gay man’s journey into manhood in...
How an infuriating encounter at an ad agency prompted Herzog to ditch a YouTube series about the internet in favour of making his feature-length connected-world documentary Lo and Behold... and oth...
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI. Writer, director and producer Mani Ratnam, whose films include Mouna Ragam (1986), Godfatheresque Nayagan (1987) and Bombay (1995), gives a career interv...
The director of Old Boy and Stoker talks about his work, including his new film - an adaptation of the Sarah Waters' novel Fingersmith, called The Handmaiden. Speaking via his translator he explain...
Starship Troopers, Robocop, Basic Instinct and now... Elle. The Dutch troublemaker Paul Verhoeven talks through his rich, varied and risk-taking movies at a 60th BFI London Film Festival Screen Tal...
Blade Runner: The Final Cut (New Trailer) - In cinemas 3 Apr | BFI release For more information on the nationwide release and to buy tickets click here: http://bit.ly/1zJVMga
Welcome to the world of a national obsession and a place where people say 'orf' instead of 'off'. Tea connoisseurs will benefit from the six golden tips for making the perfect cuppa, as well as cou...