A co-production of Columbia Pictures and USC’s Department of Cinema, this 1958 educational short hosted by William Holden explores the art of adaptation through behind-the-scenes footage of the production of David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Mitra and Whit walk around Brooklyn discussing their dream TV show.

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Amateur 'film enthusiast' footage shot in the last century creating a valuable resource for History, an eyewitness archive.

An occasional series of short films, each pairing a composer and a director to explore contemporary British music.

China on Film - a collection of rare films documenting life and landscape in China and Hong Kong in the first half of the 20th century.

A comedy, based on the sometimes funny and sometimes sad adventures of Sergeant Lyalin. There were two reasons for traveling to the village of Zhuravlikha. The first was personal: he decided to look for a girl he really liked. And the second was a desire to bring girls to the construction of the beautiful bridge of Sinegorye, where after demobilization the platoon of Sergeant Lyalin, convinced that a city begins with a family, went in full force.

A retrospective of the career of actor John Wayne, showing clips from many of his most famous films.

In 1908, amateur naturalist and pioneering filmmaker Percy Smith stunned early cinema goers with his footage of the juggling fly. Hailed as the father of Natural History film, Smith was a hugely influential visual pioneer, inventing many techniques that are still used today. Being both a genius and an eccentric, we follow his life from his earliest films, to the collapse of his house from his mould experiment to his ultimate suicide. We also meet Natural History icon Sir David Attenborough, who was so amazed by Smith’s films in the 1930s that they inspired him to get into natural history.

Offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion picture camera, first captures a nation on film.