Training Diesel Drivers

A film maker's attempt to record the last steam-hauled passenger and freight trains running along the West of England mainline from Waterloo

Testing times as we make a journey on board British Rail's High Speed Track Recording Coach.

Not-so-special special effects add the magic touch to this kitsch British Rail commercial.

King's Cross to Peterborough at 1250 miles per hour on board the Intercity 125

A new luxury express is put through its paces. This film looks over the shoulders of the select band of craftsmen, engineers and operators, whose combined skills try to ensure that a train journey is a delightful experience.

A 1957 film examining the future for British Railways, and some of the opportunities provided by a new modernisation plan.

From donkey rides to sports day: a year in the life of the hearing impaired of Derby.

A sentimental sale or simply for profit? British Railways sells off the history that doesn't fit with the swinging sixties.

"The way we're playing I don't want to see an awful lot of them". Typically blunt words from Brian Clough as his team prepare for a visit by Leeds United.

In October 1934 a high-flying Grimsby Town team put four past Derby County at the Baseball Ground.

Derby County take on Leicester City at the Baseball ground in April 1939 - the last full season of football before the outbreak of war.

The happiest day of Mary and Peter's lives but will the rising water levels spoil their day?

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.