The Film of the Film of the Film

Experience the spectacle of landscape gardening on a grand scale in Gateshead.

Witness a world record-beating race on home ground by Gateshead’s local sporting hero, Brendan Foster.

Interview with the blacklisted American entertainer and activist Eartha Kitt who purred her way to success.

The toe-dipping delights and tranquillity of the Northumbrian Riviera and beyond.

The fast track to an ambitious new Metro system that ends commuter misery on Tyneside in the 80s.

A roving cine club camera charts the changing face of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne and its environs in the 1980s.

Actor and writer Joanna Scanlan talks to Mia Bays, director of the BFI's Filmmaking Fund, about her career in film and television.

Horace Ové's striking portrait of the American writer James Baldwin at his sharp-witted best addressing a group of radical West Indian students in 1960s London.

An emotional stand-off takes flight, as teen best friends Ronit and Brennan come to terms with navigating that fuzzy feeling in their stomachs, all whilst learning to skateboard.

While visiting the adoptive family of her eight-year-old biological son, Tara relays advice she gathered from growing up as a queer outcast.

In Taliban controlled Afghanistan, Laili walks into a Chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full body veil from a Talib shopkeeper and face a new future.

Banished in a dilapidated village hut during her menstruation, a young girl waits to elope with her lover.