For information about booking a DCP please contact the bookings unit. We also have an extensive library of film prints available which can be loaned once the local rights clearances are in place. The bookings team will give advice and confirm availability.
Available titles (on DCP)
Arcadia
Paul Wright’s exhilarating study of the British people’s shifting - and contradictory – relationship to the land.
Book nowAround China with a Movie Camera
Take a trip back to China in the first half of the 20th century with this programme of archive films.
Book nowAround India with a Movie Camera
Sandhya Suri skilfully weaves together archive footage to create an emotionally resonant story about life across India pre-1947.
Book nowThe Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands
A thrilling reconstruction of 2 decisive naval battles from the early stages of the First World War.
Book nowBlue Black Permanent
Margaret Tait’s only feature-length film, the first Scottish feature directed by a woman.
Book nowBronco Bullfrog
Powerful and authentic, Barney Platts-Mills’ 1969 landmark youth film offers a fascinating record of the then-emerging suedehead subculture.
Book nowDistant Voices, Still Lives
A remarkable evocation of working-class family life in the 1940s and 50s from Terence Davies.
Book nowThe Edge of the World
Inhabitants of a remote island find their way of life threatened by a rapidly industrialising world in Michael Powell’s landmark feature.
Book nowThe Epic of Everest
The remarkable official film record of the legendary Everest expedition of 1924.
Book nowFinest Hour: Films by Humphrey Jennings
A compilation of works from Britain’s greatest documentary director.
Book nowFrantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask
Isaac Julien’s acclaimed film about the influential anti-colonialist writer.
Book nowThe Great White Silence
The official record of Captain Scott’s heroic journey to the South Pole.
Book nowHow to Survive the 1940s
A special programme of public information films from the archives of the COI.
Book nowThe Informer
A revolutionary is on the run in this gripping thriller, one of the finest British films of the silent era.
Book nowLondon
Patrick Keiller’s journal of 1992, the year of John Major’s re-election, IRA bombs and the first crack in the House of Windsor.
Book nowLove is the Devil
A dazzling and audacious depiction of the combustible relationship between one of Britain’s most revered 20th-century artists and his muse.
Book nowLove Letters and Live Wires
A special compilation featuring highlights from the archives of the GPO Film Unit.
Book nowMake More Noise! Suffragettes in Silent Film
A selection of silent films showing how suffragettes were portrayed on screen while their battles were still being waged on the streets outside.
Book nowMaeve
Pat Murphy and John Davis’ experimental film brings a feminist alternative to the conventional narrative of the Troubles.
Book nowMinute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith
A meditative, immersive tribute to the astonishing work of naturalist, inventor and pioneering filmmaker F. Percy Smith.
Book nowMurder in the Cathedral
George Hoellering’s acclaimed adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s classic verse drama on the murder of Thomas Becket.
Book nowMy Feral Heart
An independent young man with Down’s syndrome stumbles upon a wild and life changing friendship.
Book nowA Night at the Cinema in 1914
A glorious miscellany of comedies, adventure films, travelogues and newsreels recreates a typical night out at the cinema in 1914.
Book nowNighthawks
The first British fiction feature to present a realistic picture of the gay community.
Book nowPiccadilly
A sumptuous showbiz melodrama seething with sexual and racial tension, and one of the pinnacles of British silent cinema.
Book nowPlay On: Shakespeare in Silent Film
A delightful selection of thrilling, iconic and humorous scenes from 24 newly digitised silent Shakespeare titles.
Book nowRiddles of the Sphinx
One of the most important avant-garde films to have emerged from Britain during the 1970s.
Book nowRobinson in Ruins
Tour “sites of scientific and historical interest” in and around Oxford with Patrick Keiller’s haunting look at the English landscape.
Book nowShiraz
This epic silent film is a ravishing, romantic tale of the story behind one of the world’s most iconic structures: the Taj Mahal.
Book nowShooting Stars
Go behind the scenes of a 1920s film studio with this sophisticated silent classic, the directorial debut of Anthony Asquith.
Book nowThe Terence Davies Trilogy
Three early films from director Terence Davies showcasing his singular talent and style.
Book nowUnderground
Anthony Asquith’s subterranean tale of love, jealousy and murder, restored by the BFI National Archive.
Book nowWinstanley
A meticulously accurate and luminously filmed account of England’s first commune, established in 1649, from Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo.
Book nowWittgenstein
Derek Jarman’s bold, energetic and stylish examination of the life of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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