Topical Budget Company Movies

The wedding of the Duke of York, the future George VI, to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Jack Hobbs reaches his 124th century at the Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's.

Surrey play Yorkshire at the Oval as the 1922 County Championship nears its conclusion.

Billy the pet seal adapts to village life in Wereham, Norfolk.

England battered by Bardsley in the second Test against Australia at Lord's.

Feathered friends prepare to meet their fate in this seasonal newsreel outing to a Norfolk turkey farm.

During an unusually harsh winter, a frozen trawler arrives on the river Thames.

Recruits of Lord Kitchener's 'New Army' parade on Christmas morning.

Battered, bandaged and playing croquet on crutches, wounded First World War soldiers get a break from the Western Front.

Talented and obedient Red Cross dogs prepare to rescue Berlin's wounded from the Front.

Dashing through the snow; on a six-horse open plough... The streets are ready for sledging in 1920s Buxton.

A momentous act of self sacrifice is caught on camera - Emily Davison is trampled by the King's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby.

Picturesque scenes of land girls gathering hay on an Essex farm during WWI.

An aeronautical accident is caught on camera at a Parisian 'Aéro-Parc'.

Private Daly of the Connaught Rangers triumphs in the Aldershot Command annual cross country race, months before the outbreak of WWI.

No fewer than five once or future prime ministers on show at the momentous 1923 election.

A masterful innings by Australian batsman Macartney in the third test at Headingley.

“Chicago’s Titanic” the S.S. Eastland, a Great Lakes passenger ship in which 844 people lost their lives, is brought up from the...

The Valentine's card, 1920s-style. Two British actresses put lips to paper in a demonstration of the so-called "Kiss Valentine", leaving a lipstick...

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.