Hastings Sea Angling Festival

A humble scrub is all it takes to get these French troops in a lather.

The maiden flight of Britain's first successful rigid airship – just don’t call it a zeppelin…

A tramp steals the clothes from a scarecrow, but when he realises two couples are using its pockets to pass messages, he sees an opportunity.

Newlywed Tubby fancies another man's typewriter and ends up in hot water with his new wife

Preston North End play Liverpool (probably) in a regional football competition during WWI.

Goat farming, salmon farming and copper mining all feature in this enlightening oddity.

Post- war Hastings needs to brace itself for change in this short film from the Town Planning Department

Concluding Michael Smith and Maxy Bianco's trilogy on Britain's coastal edgelands, this films looks specifically at the bohemian eccentricity of Hastings.

A plaque commemorating the first theatre in Hastings is unveiled and Stone Age dwellers take to the lake for a race.

Hastings looks marvellous in this sumptuous colour film from the late 1930s - complete with sunbathing, swimming and being slapped with a fish

Join the Youngs as they tour a number of historic coastal towns and resorts during a May holiday in the early fifties

Town criers test their vocal mettle and there's a comic knees-up in this curious tinted newsreel item

Discover why Luke Bean of Northumbria University believes everyone should experience Oldboy at least once.

Samantha Arnold of Northumbria University offers fresh insight into why Wings of Desire remains essential viewing.

The acclaimed director discusses his landmark film in this interview from 2005.

Directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor dig deep into their thrilling biopic Baltimore, in discussion with Nadia M Oliva.

Actor Herbert Norville discusses working with the pioneering filmmaker on his groundbreaking 1975 drama, Pressure.

An impassioned discussion on the life, work and legacy of the eminent filmmaker Horace Ové, chaired by Samira Ahmed.