A Century before Lunch

Vintage amateur film of the West Indies cricket team in Norwich; part of their 1939 tour of England.

Worcester, riding high as England's cricket county champions, prepare to face the 'unfashionable' Kiwis.

The Australian Women’s Team tour England in the hot summer of 1976

The voyage, the camaraderie, the matches, the sights: the whole experience of a 1950s tour down under is here.

England battered by Bardsley in the second Test against Australia at Lord's

The England cricket team enjoy the best of the West Indies on their 1948 tour.

An extraordinary film made by amateurs showing a wide variety of species of bees in close up feeding from an equally wide variety of flowers.

The metamorphosis of the eating machine which is the caterpillar, into an Emperor Moth, revealed in all its detail and presented in 15 minutes.

When rugby league players looked no different from footballers, and the crowds were just as big, and not wearing a hat was an eccentricity.

A trip across Leeds in March 1956 on board the 194 tram, advertising Hemmingway Ales, passing the local traffic, the Civic Hall and other notable landmarks.

A wonderful film of secondary school lads in 1950s Leeds, out playing fast rugby on a frosty winter morning, reading in the library, but also larking about as they swig school milk.

Athletes and acrobats wow the crowds at the annual Cycling Club carnival.

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.