Willesden Borough Council Refuse Collection

London’s school kids get to grips with teaching methods, technology and cows in this film from the 1970s explaining educational theories at different London schools.

Never a dull moment for a rural district nurse in the early days of the NHS.

Bus timetables are sacrosanct to some but to others there are more important things in life - and faith is one of them.

Refuse collection you cannot refuse with some state-of-the-art bin business in 1920s Sheffield

It's an Aladdin's Cave of household goods: Donald Sansome's travelling store is a lifeline for the people of rural Leicestershire

Beautiful NHS fundraiser, setting Michael Rosen’s poem to powerful archive images.

Animated advert showcasing the remarkable effects of Anzora Viola Cream, produced in London and the market leader until Brylcreem appeared.

It's all fun and games in Willesden, Chingford and Tottenham on International Co-operators' Day.

Crying, sleeping, ignoring the camera – the entrants in Willesden’s ‘healthy baby’ contest are amusingly uncooperative, despite presence of actress Violet Hopson.

A fictional film promoting the new town of Hemel Hempstead and the way to a new life and new home for a London bricklayer and his family.

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.