Factory Exit in Wigan (1901)

Mitchell and Kenyon capture comedian Tom E. Murray at Lizars Theatre in Edinburgh on 12 December 1904.

Eager crowds watch the trams go by, while a boisterous children's walking race raises smiles all round.

How did these Chinese gentlemen end up in a Blackburn basement?

Can you identify this street corner, or perhaps a young face in the parade?

Two tantalising fragments of Mitchell and Kenyon's fiction films - but what do they tell us?

Men mill around the bustling yard of a large workplace, perhaps a brewery?

The flagship of the GPO Film Unit's output and a cornerstone of British documentary, featuring music by Benjamin Britten and the verse of W.H. Auden.

The short-lived minnows Wigan Borough F.C. take on the mighty Sheffield Wednesday in the third round of the FA Cup.

Ironfounders and engineers head home after morning shift at Pagefield Works.

Well-heeled Edwardian workers head home after work.

A lively crowd surround the camera filming a tram leaving Wigan Market Place.

Wet weather fails to dampen a thrilling show of horse-drawn fire wagons.

Charlie Hammersley, a student from Northumbria University, explains how Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film holds up a mirror to society. 

The film-makers behind a haunting tale of love and community within a UK immigration detention centre visited the BFI Southbank to discuss their film.

Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio in Conversation at BFI Southbank, discussing the making of One Battle After Another.

Laura Mulvey in conversation, following her BFI Fellowship Award.

George Clooney visited BFI Southbank to look back on his life and career.

The Oscar®- winning director of Nomadland discusses her unique approach to filmmaking and the inspiration behind the adaptation of Hamnet.