Fleet in the Tyne (1901)

Lancashire cotton-workers pile out through the mill gates at dinner time.

An astonishingly crowded Victorian street reveals the vast scale of Tyneside manufacturing.

Bicycles and broomsticks at the ready as workers finish shift at a marine engineering works in Victorian Hull.

Victorian Manchester mill workers enjoy the novelty of a moving picture camera.

Worshippers in their Sunday best file out of the Church.

A well-dressed church congregation gathers on the elegant portico.

Tuning into the biggest consumer market for television advertising in Britain with Trident TV.

Is comedian Clive Dunn the Don Draper of the British advertising world? Watch this imaginative Tyne Tees TV marketing film and decide.

Little Andy takes the speedy way to sparkling good health in a zippy 50s cartoon advertisement for Andrews Liver Salts.

A marching band leads the parades with the Boer War still raging

All the fun of the fair in this Victorian film, made in the early years of Newcastle's famous Hoppings

Being wheelchair users is not a barrier to these children doing slaloms or throwing javelins, gaining confidence and changing perceptions.

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.