Percy Hedley School

The Pinner Cine Society looks at the work of Northwood's welfare services.

The treatment of World War II Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – filmed, astonishingly, in full colour.

An interesting documentary on psychiatric provision, set at a Plymouth day hospital and originally produced for nursing recruitment.

Eleanor Roosevelt and Michael Redgrave narrate this optimistic post-war film on the rehabilitation of disabled people with polio.

A brisk look at the tests and education practices for deaf people in 1940s

Does Danny Gallagher really have healing hands?

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

It’s no use crying over spilt ink ... a cautionary comic office tale of calamity and dilly-dallying on Tyneside.

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.