Festival in London

A beautiful and evocative survey of cycling's golden years.

Typically hard-hitting public information film about the threat posed by combining a rug and a freshly polished floor.

Another of Richard Massingham’s snappy public information fillers finds the oafish everyman’s personal hygiene in question again.

Never a dull moment for a rural district nurse in the early days of the NHS.

New law targets discrimination in housing and employment in this eye-opening public information film.

Documentary warning children about the drawbacks of cigarettes – not least their addictiveness.

A newsreel record of the opening of the second Lambeth Bridge by King George V in July 1932.

Ladders, fire engines and ropes are inspected, before we get a long look at the Fire Brigade’s new Lambeth HQ from the river.

A colourful look at how residents of Lambeth spent their evenings in the early 1970s.

With Cold-War style chemical kits at the ready, valiant volunteers sample a deadly London 'peasouper' in this fascinating 1950s research film.

The director of a documentary about British funk pioneers Cymande joins the band at BFI Southbank to talk about the film.

Plotting world domination, Devil Doctor Fu-Manchu steals plans for a new aero-torpedo in this earliest surviving thrill-a-minute serial instalment.

Filmmakers Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss their documentary Scala!!!, revisiting the legendary and inspirational cinema venue and some of the most notorious films that screened there.

Long thought lost, this Powell-directed promotional short for a veteran’s charity was only rediscovered in 2003.

A poignant, stirring letter from a recently deceased pilot to his mother is read by John Gielgud.

Former Bristol Poet Laureate, Miles Chambers reads a poem specially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the NHS.