Boulter Family Films: Wedding, Barking & Dagenham (1960s)

Everyone's home in Harrow to witness Lady Di's debut as a Royal and a record-breaking winter causes chaos in 1981.

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?

Royal nuptials at Westminster Abbey, attended by the great and good including King George VI and Winston Churchill

The wedding of Queen Elizabeth II's future parents, as later incarnated by Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter in 'The King's Speech'.

Newsreel of the lavish royal marriage, which was probably the biggest British newsreel story of the decade.

The sartorial build up to the lavish nuptials of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles in 1922.

Great shots of London dockers enjoying a tea break in the teeming Royal Albert Dock, a hive of container ships and gigantic cranes.

Granny’s bloomers and a makeshift Bunny Girl costume are among the eye-popping highlights from this Christmas party on an East London estate in the 1960s.

There’s all the elements of a great wedding – hats, ribald graffiti, confetti, awkward relatives – in this short home movie of a wedding in Exeter from 1957.

A nonplussed baby and besuited smoking dad pose for the cameras in this home movie, shot in the garden and interior of a house on the Becontree estate.

Nippy speeding and multiple spills during this Scalextrix demonstration in a back garden in Becontree in the 1960s.

There’s tears of laughter followed by energetic dancing round the tinsel tree in this great film of a Christmas party in Becontree in 1964.

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.