Britain Movies

A look at Britain's beloved canal network via a fact-filled cruise along the first superhighways of the Industrial Revolution. In the age before...

This BBC Three film follows the first all Asian girls’ cricket team over the summer holidays as they train for their last ever tournament...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusalem to reveal the surprisingly radical side of this...

BBC Two takes us inside the world's biggest invention time capsule - the Science Museum vaults - and asks the nation to vote for Britain's Greatest...

Introduces the English countryside, life in London, and examples of English institutions and values, with the typical experiences a boy and girl have...

A newly-broken-up couple must temporarily reconcile their differences and travel the food festivals and markets of Britain together as they try and...

Featuring footage spanning from 1901 to 1985, this little-seen footage has been found from all across the UK. This programme allows an exploration...

Beautifully made and historically important pipe organs are being scrapped in their hundreds. Once at the centre of British culture pipe organs are...

3.5 million children are growing up in poverty in the UK. It’s one of the worst rates in the industrialised world and successive governments...

British animation short from Paul Vester.

Jane gives up being an office typist and works in an aircraft factory.

After successfully rebuilding his empire, Max Bavington has one last shot at British societal success. He politely borrows a girl, praying she will...

Over 300,000 children were given food aid in the UK last year. While politicians argue about why so many kids are experiencing food poverty, we ask...

Augustus Northmore Welby Pugin is far from being a household name, yet he designed the iconic clock tower of Big Ben as well as much of the Palace of...

This short satirical film, created entirely from archival footage, is about the British Empire—on which the sun never sets. The majority of the...

A short animation using the individual entries from within The Archive of the Irish in Britain as a new entry on each frame of the character's...

A history of the American War of Independence.

This spiritual successor to the 1942 original explores the vibrant yet tumultuous growth of Britishness over the past century. The film gives voices...

Chronicles the musical career of British post-punk art rockers Wire.