Sex and cinema have been bawdy bedfellows almost since the first flickering frames hit a screen. As early as 1896, saucy shorts were already being cranked out to titillate voyeuristic - and invariably ...

Space flight and moon landing fever makes its way to the breakfast table. A curiously quiet and carefully shot advert for a Kellogg’s food stuff no longer served in the UK. Cereal has rarely been so ...

Lancashire, Britain's industrial powerhouse gave us cotton, the Manchester Ship Canal, Blackpool illuminations, and the sublime rolling heather-purpled hills and the shimmering waters of the Lake ...

Seen in flashback through the prism of a woman's attempted suicide, this fragmented portrait of a love affair expands into a labyrinthine enquiry into memory and guilt, as her cold-hearted ...

The formation of the Gay Black Group was a landmark in gay black history. Meeting at Gay's the Word, a bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, it provided a sounding board and support for gay and black ...

A family lives the good life off the national grid. The action is an anti-nuclear energy protest and reporter Mike Whitmarsh shows how Mrs Buxton and her daughter generate their own electricity and ...

When a schoolboy's day-dream of a fantasy sports day includes events where acts of vandalism and trespass are required, dire consequences ensue. Originally created as an educational film, this ...

News reporters Tony and Sally Adams visit a nudist centre at a country hotel in South Devon. The beach at Slapton Sands Nature Reserve and nearby Pilchard Cove have been frequented by nudist bathers ...

On her return to Tyneside in the 60s, the most popular British author of her age, Catherine Cookson, talks to reporter Marion Foster about the Geordie character and her nostalgia for home. "The ...

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Hopes and fears around Britain entering the European common market in 1972 manifested in many ways – such as this opportunistic TV ad. Were such “British” institutions as Heinz Baked Beans on toast ...

Local authorities had long been using film to spread their public health messages. But the 'official' information film came of age in WWII, when it was used by government to guide the public through ...