
Take a trip back to China in the first half of the twentieth Century with this presentation of extraordinary, rare and beautiful travelogues, newsreels and home movies.
A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China. The cinematic journey of Around China with a Movie Camera contains many films which may never have been seen in China, or at the very least not for over 70 years. These travelogues, newsreels and home movies were made by a diverse group of British and French filmmakers, some professionals, but mainly enthusiastic amateurs, including intrepid tourists, colonial-era expatriates and Christian missionaries.

Japanese Expedition to Antarctica
1912

La brèche
2021

Secrets of China's Forbidden City
2017

Mrs. Fang
2018

A Visit to Los Angeles
1916

The Everlasting Flame
2009

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
2009

Tibet: The Survival of the Spirit
1989

Crocodile in the Yangtze
2012

Little Proletarian
2012

42nd Street Forever, Volume 5: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
2009

Bread
1934