Congregation Leaving St Mary's Church, Dumfries (c.1901)

Lancashire cotton-workers pile out through the mill gates at dinner time.

An astonishingly crowded Victorian street reveals the vast scale of Tyneside manufacturing.

Bicycles and broomsticks at the ready as workers finish shift at a marine engineering works in Victorian Hull.

Victorian Manchester mill workers enjoy the novelty of a moving picture camera.

A well-dressed church congregation gathers on the elegant portico.

Well-to-do of Cork worshippers leaving St Patrick's Church.

‘Electricity can do almost anything’ – farmers are encouraged to power up their farm

A new Working Girls’ Club offering classes in literacy and domestic tasks to local working-class girls.

These Doonhamers of Dumfries - the 'Queen of the South' - smile for the camera in this 'local topical' film

Startling colour photography of 1920s Britain imbues Claude Friese-Greene’s 1920s road trip around Britain.

A lively group of Scottish primary-school children plays up for the camera.

Dumfries schoolchildren take their turn in the spotlight.

Daniel Kokotajlo talks to Nia Childs about Starve Acre, his folk horror about a couple digging deep into grief in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.

Sky Peals director Moin Hussain and lead actor Faraz Ayub talk to Tomisin Adepeju about their magic realist drama.

Documentary exploring the BFI National Archive’s role in rediscovering and remastering the early films of Michael Powell.

Bryony Dixon, curator of silent film at the BFI national archive, explores the origins of a series of comic travelogues, and Michael Powell's involvement in making them.

Discover why Dan George of Northumbria University believes everyone should experience Oldboy at least once.

Trixie Parkin-Christie of Northumbria University offers fresh insight into why Wings of Desire remains essential viewing.