Employees Leaving Tangyes Engineering Works, Smethwick (1901)

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.

Girls gut herring on the quay at North Shields while a Showman tries to stir up trouble.

A black miner makes an intriguing addition to an already captivating film of coal workers up from their pit.

A flood of Lancashire cotton workers and their children at the end of another shift.

A cheerful, largely female crowd makes their way home from work.

A rich impression of a vibrant Midlands works, in an unusually elaborate 'factory gate' film.

From Selly Oak to Birmingham's Head Post Office in a wheelchair - how hard could it be?

Don't become a victim of the new fifty penny piece!

A middle class designed city with no style - Arthur Dooley pulls no punches in Birmingham.

An impressively stark documentary study of Birmingham slums - past and present.

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

He arrived in Britain with £3 and went on to become one of the richest business men in the Midlands. How did Amrat Parmar do it?

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.