Who's Zoo at Belle Vue

Fun mixture of natural history and wartime public information.

Sweet and funny short about a potty-mouthed dog who loves his owner

Six legged competitors take to the starting blocks as a Midlands pub brings the sport of beetle racing to the world.

Daisy the pet alligator living on the Lizard in Cornwall

Should you look hard enough, you’ll be amazed at the antics that creatures get up to, says Dorothy Maxey, amateur filmmaker and naturalist.

Guiseley lads bring the brass to Belle Vue Zoo’s historic competition in Manchester, 1962.

With dividends, bargains and rewards, there's something for everyone at the Manchester and Salford Co-operative Society.

What do artists do all day? Join the art students of Manchester to find out.

Here's a good way to work up an appetite - a boy goes out and about at the zoo.

“If there’s music in yer, it has to come out”. But northern brass bands, as this film testifies, reveal so much more about working class life than its innate creativity.

Meet the Powell family of Manchester and their friends.

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.