Forgotten Features

Child actor Mandy Miller shines in this children's adventure set in the traditional hop picking season in Kent.

The adventures of the spirited Tom Brown at Rugby School in the 1830s.

The first film adaptation of Harold Brighouse's Salford-set play, humorously depicting the travails of a dipsomaniac cobbler.

Pete Postlethwaite, Bill Nighy and Julie Walters appear in this film about a four-year struggle to set up a worker’s cooperative.

Ambitious, eccentric and hugely entertaining biopic, with Dennis Price's 'wicked' poet-adventurer defending himself in a celestial court.

The path to true love never runs smooth, but poor Margaret Lockwood gets more of a bumpy ride than anyone deserves in this post-war melodrama.

20 years after saying goodbye to a young waitress and embarking on a war-bound ship, a naval officer discovers he has an adult daughter.

A teenage boy breaks all the rules of rock climbing to reach the top of an off-limits Lake District mountain.

A young woman is persuaded to help a Chinese businessman to kidnap a naval officer in this fun and outrageous British thriller.

A star is born in this effervescent musical comedy that moves between Billingsgate Fish Market and the glamour of the film world.

In a bid to improve on nature, a scientist creates a robot female. But the experiment doesn't quite turn out as planned...

Laughs and thrills come thick and fast in this Edgar Wallace comedy-thriller with a hair-raising car versus train chase.

Following one family from 1944 onwards, this film tells the story of the women who worked to keep the home fires burning. An affecting tribute to the vital role women played ensuring that husbands, sons and daughters had something to come home to.

The diverse tenants of a London boarding house find their lives transformed by a mysterious and kindly stranger.

Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller with a gang of crooks intent on stealing a gold shipment on a Scotland to London express.

Ambitious, stirring British Western that pits man against the elements in the battle to drive a railway through the Canadian Rockies

Surviving footage of the first sound version of Arnold Ridley's famous railway station comedy thriller

Two public school teachers clash over teaching methods and the love of a good woman in this absorbing Hugh Walpole adaptation.

A man goes fishing and comes home with a most unusual catch in this comedy feature.

An escaped murderer faces the vengeful spirit of the woman he killed in this 'psychic mystery' British B-movie.

Young Lord Billy sniffs out sneaky German marauders in this flag-waving war drama - thrills for British boys, 1919-style.

Dramatic reconstruction of the Somme

Dramatisation of the popular conspiracy theory surrounding the mid-WWI death of Lord Kitchener.

Kidnapping, mobsters and moonshine! Is this a story is set in a country, which exists only in the minds of those who have never been to Ireland?

The bar flies prepare for the big day with betting, boozing and banter. But will best man Billy break more than his ma’s heart before the wedding?

Will new open-air microphone technology give Richard Hayward the chance to silence his critics? Watch as Cushendun and Bangor steal the show.

Entertaining and evocative Fleet Air Arm drama-doc propaganda piece, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Reserve player overcomes the odds to win the heart of a fair lady... and the FA Cup final in this early footie feature.

This morale-boosting variety extravaganza – filled with radio personality Carroll Levis' discoveries - is like a wartime Britain's Got Talent.

Nefarious nightclub hosts blackmail a drunkard into fleecing their customers

The course of true love certainly doesn't run smooth in this unlikely Scottish drama from the Clarendon Film Company.

Charismatic silent star Fred Paul is cast against type as a real rotter preying on innocents in the big city, in an enjoyably lurid London melodrama.

AWOL for more than half a century, but now back on parade, this cheery army comedy is a showcase for variety star Hal Monty and a young Max Bygraves.

A brisk and rousing biopic of Robert Burns, punctuated by songs and poems based on his famous works.

A holiday romance between a miner and a secretary blossoms in Ramsgate

A tale of treachery, madness and thwarted love in this vivid rural melodrama set around Heptonstall in Yorkshire.

Lovingly rendered version of a traditional Welsh folk tale of thwarted romance, set in 17th-century Cefn Ydfa.

Johnston Forbes-Roberston gives his famous performance of Hamlet in this ambitious early Shakespeare feature

Master criminal Dr Nikola seeks a Chinese curio that promises eternal life and world domination

Charming tale of East End lovers divided by a not so lucky windfall, with beautiful scenes in the Kent hop fields.

A strong cast of British stage luminaries enriches this tale of heartache and betrayal in 18th century London society

Handsomely presented drama about a man caught between his privileged Western education and traditional African roots.

Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song

Drama and romance by the North Sea in this tale of family dispute

Early attempt at medieval epic with impressive locations

Romantic melodrama about a woman who loses both her parents and innocently falls in with a bad crowd.

Bollywood-on-Thames: East meets West in a tale of two loves in 70s London

The stirring story of poet Ellis Evans-Hedd Wyn, the Welsh poet posthumously awarded the Eisteddfod chair at Birkenhead in 1917 after failing to return from 1st World War trenches.

Find out what happens when a good girl goes bad in this controversial post-war Brit noir thriller starring Jean Kent.