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In the mid-1920s, Claude Friese-Greene drove from Land’s End to John O’Groats making a series of films en route. These remarkable films captured the life and people on his journey in colour, at a time...
A documentary about Britain’s ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign of the Second World War. Launched in 1939, the campaign encouraged men, women and children to cultivate their gardens, local parks and...
A compilation of promotional and amateur films relating to the 1939 New York World’s Trade Fair, which provided a glimpse of an ephemeral future, envisioned on the cusps of the Depression and World War 2.
THE MEDICUS COLLECTION: REEL 4 PART 2, REEL 5 AND REEL 6 (1939, COLOR, SILENT, 2:32:18) Kodachrome amateur colour film that documents the many different sights to be seen at the fair (more included in THE...
THE MEDICUS COLLECTION: REEL 1 PART 3, REEL 2, REEL 3 AND REEL 4 PART 1 Kodachrome amateur colour film that documents the many different sights to be seen at the fair (more included in THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:...
A compilation of seven short films on exhibits at the 1964 New York World’s Trade Fair - the last to be held on American soil.
A collection of films showing the effect of the blitz on London and its people, and the plans for the post-war regeneration of the City. Includes: LONDON CAN TAKE IT, THE PROUD CITY, LONDON AIRPORT, MOVING...
A series of 12 x 30-minute programmes in which five archaeologists and historians take on the challenge of running a farm on the Welsh borders for a year, as it would have been in the reign of James I....
Audio recording of a lecture given by military historian Professor Richard Holmes, examining Indian soldiering in peace and war. He addresses the experience of ordinary soldiers, why they joined up, how...
A compilation of three programmes exploring ‘The Romantics’. FROM REVOLUTION TO NATURE - This film traces the ‘birth’ of the individual in modern society. It begins with Jean Jacques Rousseau who...
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