Two Dosas

Exploring the way in which culture has a fundamental influence within the African Diaspora in London.

When Nazanin attends her estranged fathers funeral she is compelled into womanhood, by rebelling against the ideals of what it is to be an Iranian woman.

A look into a young Somali woman who is having difficulties speaking her mother tongue.

Two women discuss the complexities of defining their racial identities.

Bringing together a series of compelling stories from the mixed-race community.

Journalists congregate outside the Japanese embassy in London following the announcement of the death of the Emperor Meiji.

Capital scenes thanks to Victorian filmmakers

A sports day gives the young residents of the Foundling Hospital a chance to let off steam

Londoners turn out in their thousands to greet the returning Boer War hero after his famous defence of Ladysmith

Horse-drawn traffic on one of London's busiest thoroughfares

The Band of the First Life Guards approaches Westminster Bridge during Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.

Potent record of the 1921 Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic expedition, marked by the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Unreleased footage of an expedition in Bolivia, filmed by British explorer and naturalist JC Bee-Mason.

The Court Treatt expedition arrives in Luxor in this fragment from the film record of their journey across Africa.

Compelling travel feature edited from footage of the 1925-26 Worsley Algarsson Arctic expedition.

In this illustrated discussion, BFI programmer-at-large Geoff Andrew and Catherine Wheatley, the author of two books on Michael Haneke’s work, examine what makes him such a distinctive, important and often controversial cinematic artist.

Film critic Carmen Gray and film writer Ela Bittencourt discuss three films by trailblazing Czech filmmaker Věra Chytilová.