The Story of Petroleum

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films....

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...

Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy...

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

The environmental measures taken by the oil industry at the Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetlands.

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

The French researcher Bertrand Monnet visits pirates in Nigeria and Somalia to learn how they make money from oil theft and kidnapping.

Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.

Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of their exploitation on the environment in various...

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China....