Autobiographical account of a mother-daughter relationship, exploring beauty standards and female sexuality.

A young black ballerina rejects prejudice and finds her African spirit in Swan Lake.

The fatal fascination with the myth of the black feminine mystique is uncovered in Ngozi Onwurah's short

Rural life in the Essex villages of Finchingfield and Great Bardfield - and the mixed reactions of older residents to changing times.

London at its best? This gorgeous lyrical portrait was made by pioneering female director Marion Grierson.

Tired of being hassled by the police and with no job opportunities, a group of teenage East End lads plan to rob a bank.

World in Action interviews the residents of Haycroft Road, Brixton as a controversial by-election stokes concerns about race and immigration.

Insightful exploration of the relationship between a Jamaican mother and her British-born daughter.

A key social issues film documentary from the British Documentary Movement, this two-part film follows the establishment of social enterprises in England and Wales.

Dover gets a makeover in this offbeat and pointed public information film.

Is your hedge thin and straggly? Don't worry, help is at hand

Power cuts, housing shortages and exorbitant rents – Aberdeen man Norrie Williamson goes head to head with his greedy landlady

Anja Kirschner and David Panos investigate the financial crisis from its European epicentre - Greece.

Theatre director Steve Pearl talks about his chance meetings with a female ventriloquist.

The concluding episode in Anja Kirschner and David Panos' series of films on the Greek financial crisis.

The global financial crisis viewed through the prism of modern Greece.

The instability of memory comes to the fore when artist Lindsay Seers' step-sister Christine is involved in a moped accident which severely damages her memory.

Writer M. Anthony Penwill, an occult photography expert, recalls how his meeting with Ted Serios led him to encounter the artist Lindsay Seers.

Eitienne, a neuroscientist who is working around ideas of self awareness, is haunted by his patient, who he calls 'Marathon Man' a man who cannot move his own body unless he sees it.

In the second in the series of Emily Wardill films, Eitienne the neuroscientist meets Georgia, a woman with whom he is able to connect and they fall in love.

Eitienne's dates with different women explore proprioception through a contemporary situation.

Actor and cameraman engage in a game of ‘grandmother’s footsteps’ in a playfully delightful film.

Eitienne the neuroscientist delivers a lecture to students that explores ideas of self-awareness.

An overworked neuroscientist is encouraged to begin online dating.

As she recollects her childhood, the filmmaker reflects on time, family and ageing.

Anne Rees-Mogg pays tribute to Muybridge’s studies of human motion with this portrait of filmmaker Renny Croft.

A documentary on life, filmic time and stock car racing.

A female dancer performs in front of what appears to be a wall of mirrors until her reflection takes on a life of its own.

Six film portraits of women associated with the punk music scene in 1970s New York.

An intimate account of frustration and disarray in 1980s Britain from the point of view of a young woman.

Bonnie Edinburgh - a picturesque promotional film to attract tourists to the Scottish capital

Sally Potter's lively dance film about spies and government intrigue.

A stop-motion collage film that constructs a garden out of flowers, candles, plastic cellophane and food

Is this the scariest public information film ever? This hard-hitting warning against 'stranger danger' was considered too distressing to be broadcast on television.

A rare outing for a 1945 drama documentary on local studies education in Bishop Auckland by one of Britain's pioneering women directors.

Kay Mander's film about the planning for Dunfermline’s post-war reconstruction is a fascinating record of the idealism of mid-20th-century town planning.

Everyday family life in suburban North London - as seen by folk learning English in the 1950s.

The Night Before Christmas meets Toy Story in this charming British cartoon from 1958.

"Dad... I want a bike!” Fun animated campaign aimed at 50s parents and their over-eager offspring.

A cartoon fantasy brings fabric patterns to life in a literal soap opera - yet even here the reality of Home Front life creeps in

Cartoon propaganda short sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow

A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short

A talking cabbage plant will win you over in this Second World War cartoon trailer, which has a surprising charm.

Flock to your local keep fit class - there's a war on and Britain needs its citizens in tip-top shape.

The birdlife of Northumberland's Farne Islands comes under the spotlight in this pioneering documentary from the Secrets of Life nature series.

Fun mixture of natural history and wartime public information.

Urban nature explored in this wonderful short film looking at the lives, habits and habitats of London’s pigeon population.

Rise and shine! Newark market calls with a seductive array of produce.

Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks"

It's all action on the home front with civilians on high alert to support the war effort.

The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds (1940s-style) at a nursery in Guildford.

This stylish film shows the cramped life of one family in post-war Plymouth, and expands on the contentious plans for the city's rebuilding.

"Why in the height of a world war, should there be this terrific interest in painting?"

Innocent bunnies face an onslaught of badgers, bombs and birds of prey in this black comedy masquerading as a nature film.

A boy and his cat make mischief in the snow at South Shields in this captivating hand-drawn childrens animation created by Sheila Graber.

Barbie dolls in pink battle khaki killing machines in a Christmas animation that cocks a snook at the “Disney Doctrine”.

Chomping alligators, a boomerang throwing kangaroo, a turkey in Turkey, and an angry lion, all mollified by a world touring, bumbling Santa.

A classic Christmas carol brought joyously to life in this engaging and colourful Sheila Graber animation, with help from her school class.

Learn how to speak Geordie with a riotous animation of Scott Dobsons popular vernacular lessons.

An unusual mix of pastel, photos, film and line drawings conjures a story of the River Tyne, from its source at the Scottish border to its mouth at South Shields.

This jaunty hand-drawn animation charts the history of womens revolutionary road to freedom in the North East - from Stone Age sister to suffragette of the twentieth century.

Milky movie: close-up on Somerset's changing milk and cheese industry

A parade of colourful fashions wearing their synthetic brand with pride

Meet the Abrews, a unique showbiz family whose imprint on British culture began in Scotland in the 19th century

A powerfully bittersweet image of the loneliness and sacrifice in migration stories, centred on a Nigerian-British family

Victorian lantern slides and a ‘patriotic’ rendering of God Save the Queen

A poetic tutorial about how to make an experimental film

The delicate everyday beauty of soap bubbles, moving water and rainbow reflections.

The filmmaker revisits the landscape of her youth and her memory of it

The filmmaker re-evokes the presence of her great-grandfather, Henry Stiles Savory, a Victorian clergyman, photographer and scientist.

Two girls become 18th century ladies in this short film about the assumption of roles.

A cinematographic response to Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus with Plath’s own readings of her poetry

A vertiginous lesbian kiss in a mountain cablecar inspired by German expressionism.

A first-person essay on the experience of anorexia and its cultural causes

Uranium mining in Canada and the destruction of the environment

A fractured narrative on a female worker at a plutonium terminal

Go with the flow: the marine life of Millport, Ayrshire, ingeniously filmed.

A filmic exploration of the working conditions of female nuclear workers.

An anti-nuclear film on a community living in proximity to uranium mines in Canada.

Images of fireworks superimposed in the camera and in the optical printer

Clouds filmed from a moving car producing the illusion of space within the frame

A traditional ‘still life’ serves as subject for a film on colour transformation

An impassioned embrace on an ocean pier to 'The Ten Commandments of Love'.

Classic expanded cinema work that proposes a direct relationship between the sonic and the visual.

A beautifully painted animated critique of modern intensive farming methods

Looking outside and looking back in the same moment; the collision of memory and reluctance.

A film on the theme of women’s work and free time

Extreme state of religious and sexual ecstasy in this film on the figure of Saint Teresa

Reveries during a train journey are suggested though montage

A reflection on the relationship between language and work

An urban fairy tale where myth and reality constantly collide

Close-up images of a white swan as it prepares for flight

Meaning is built through repetition in this filmic meditation of sexuality, loss and rebirth.

A council launderette as a site of oppression and possible resistance

A woman remembers her past while travelling on the London Underground

A woman searches through an interior landscape, where she is both trapped and contained

A homoerotic homage to Genet and Lautréamont with an angel and a hermaphrodite.

A study of frustration and insolence featuring an epicene angel played by Cerith Wyn Evans

A young woman shakes eels out from between the sheets of a bed.

A reel of 8mm film undergoes a mysterious transformation through refilming, colour changing and printing

Playful investigation of the filmic equipment, particularly camera and projector

The filmmaker explores the relationship of her own body to the filmmaking apparatus

A woman loses her head to a cat in return for a man.

Spring tides and menstrual cycles at the full and new moon

A photomontage film that offers an interpretation of the mystery of the harvest.

Three potentially violent domestic activities performed by a woman.

A film which attempts to reflect the rigour of the music featuring pianist Katharina Wolpe.

Boundaries are blurred as images of a woman’s body are projected onto domestic objects

A metaphorical and lyrical journey of discovery through childhood memories

A film in three parts shot in varying intimate and personal environments.

Tentative gestures of hands and body become symbolic of trust and the need to escape

Frame by frame analysis of documentary footage taken at a children’s Christmas party.

An exultant journey through the emotional landscape of the filmmaker’s native Gibraltar.

An image of freedom and the melancholy of parting in this film about Gibraltar

A feminist collage/essay film that takes a critical look at certain feminist theories.