Including features, shorts, corporate films, adverts, animation and documentary, the collection is comprised of works that have unknown or uncontactable rights-holders. The BFI archive team has ...

While it may seem silly to archive 'Charlie bit my finger' for future generations, it's good practice to treat the internet as an impermanent space ...

The BFI is to obtain the Central Office of Information’s entire moving image archive collection when it closes on March 31. The BFI National Archive is to obtain the COI’s entire moving image ...

Netflix will be the first streamer in the world to have its series and films preserved in the British Film Institute (BFI) National Archive collection. Over the next five years, hundreds of Netflix ...

More than 750 films focusing on 20th-century British countryside traditions and customs made available on internet They were more innocent times when it was acceptable to throw heated coins at ...

My first experience of television was a momentary appearance on the documentary Born to be Small (1973). My father, William Shakespeare, was one of the stars, who all had restricted growth, and the ...

When the Lumière brothers screened their short film “L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat” in 1895, their audience infamously experienced a surge of panic when the film unfurled; never before had ...

"It’s become embedded into every aspect of UK (and world) society." The collection, which is currently 60 videos strong, includes a lot of classics. There's Weebls Stuff's "Badgers" video, Charlie Bit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The British Film Institute has struck a deal with iQIYI, one of China’s largest streaming platforms, to curate a selection of ...

The British Film Institute has struck a deal with iQIYI, one of China’s largest streaming platforms, to curate a selection of films for Chinese audience. iQIYI, which has over 10 million paid ...