King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on...

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.

A ‘phantom ride’ taken from the front of a train passing through the Devon town of Barnstaple.

An early short about fox hunting

George Albert Smith and Charles Urban snaffled the plum job of travelling to Italy to take a series of views of Italy for the Warwick Trading...

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

A man reads a newspaper whose moving letters form 'Bill Bailey has come home'.

Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves away to the right of the picture. Large numbers...

Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along the gangway leading to the ship towards the...

A “phantom ride” taken from the buffers of an engine on the London and South West Railway through the Ilfracombe area: the reservoirs, Morthroe,...

Brussels in the Belle Epoque, recorced on film in a straightforward way. Camera work and editing are purely functional. The film observes busy...

The famous Polytechnic Harriers, one of Britain’s premier athletic clubs, who would later open the 1908 London Olympics, running a paper chase –...

An actuality film of the 1900 Paris Exhibition, shot from a boat travelling down the Seine.

A set of dancers from Algeria perform, though the footage oddly ends with Scottish dancers performing in traditional garb.

A film adapted from the play Savage South Africa which depicts scenes from the first and second Matabele War.

Shot just a few days after the relief of Mafeking, this film captures the progress of British military personnel across the Vaal River in South...