Browse 97 movies from BIF
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.
Feb 1928
Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a full-rigged Windjammer sailing from Australia to England via Cape Horn.
Sep 1930
The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.
Dec 1931
Two neighboring kings addicted to gambling, Ranjit and his cousin Sohat, vie for the same beautiful young woman, Sunita, daughter of the hermit Kanwa.
Aug 1929
Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.
Jun 1928
A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.
Sep 1928
A British silent crime film directed by J. O. C. Orton
Mar 1929
The birdlife of Northumberland's Farne Islands comes under the spotlight.
Mar 1936
Micro-cinematography is used to show how plants transform their secretions into other substances.
Jan 1927
Time lapse photography of roots growing underground. Part of the “Secrets of Nature” series.
Jan 1930
A Secrets of Nature short.
Jan 1932
A specialist sunbathing camp is threatened by a campaign by the leader of the 'Wear More Clothes League'.
Sep 1932
Short film showing (with limited accuracy) the life-cycle of myxomycetes.
Feb 1931
A comedy film directed by J. O. C. Orton.
Apr 1932
A man spends the night in the Chamber of Horrors of Madame Tussauds.
'An unwary young woman led astray by a grinning gentleman on a motorcycle ends up with a sexually transmitted disease in this straight-talking female-focused silent public information film drama. Her doctor recounts - in a series of ominous flashbacks - sad tales of other women in similar situations who foolhardily let gonorrhoea and syphilis go untreated.' (BFI Player)
Jan 1929
The life cycle of the rose aphid (Macrosiphum Roseus).
Dec 1930
Jan 1933
Mosses are seen on walls, old roofs and in hedgerows.
During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.