Steel 'n' Skin

Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.

Ghanaian led Afro-Caribbean band spread infectious rhythms of world music at Plymouth’s Frankfort Gate.

If your interests happen to include rainwear, concrete in Africa, science in Sevenoaks, and gbedu drum music, then this is your lucky day...

Young working class Londoners fight racism with the power of rock and reggae in this anarchic documentary.

West London echoes to the sound of reggae and steel pans in this kaleidoscopic record of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival.

Interesting doc following the Black Theatre of Brixton, which produced more black plays in two years than the whole of English theatre had in the previous twenty-five.

All ashore! Passengers disembark and crew offload after a long Atlantic crossing.

Mrs Elizabeth Baker unwinds after a busy day with a nice cup of drinking chocolate.

Bookbinding and a bagatelle: training for disabled people in the interwar years.

It's a hard life being an misunderstood genius - I really should get out more.

Student life and all that jazz - a visit to Liverpool University in1952.

Good luck and safe motorcycling! Let the experts show you how.

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.