List of British Film Institute releases

The British Film Institute have over the years released a number of historically important films, short films and documentaries, some of which may never have otherwise been released. This includes the Flipside releases which are releases of British films that have not been released previously. There have been a number of re-issues of certain titles, including dual format releases that contain both the DVD and Blu-ray.

DVD

These are all preceded by the catalogue code BFIDVD, e.g. BFIDVD501

Where a title has been released on DVD but has now been superseded by a new DVD release or dual format release, this will be indicated after the titles below.

# Title Director Year Release Date Notes
501 Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa 1954
503 A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies Martin Scorsese 1995
504 South - Sir Ernest Shackleton's Glorious Epic of the Antarctic Frank Hurley 1919
505 Yojimbo Akira Kurosawa 1961
506 The Hidden Fortress Akira Kurosawa 1958
507 The Decameron Pier Paolo Pasolini 1971
508 The Canterbury Tales Pier Paolo Pasolini 1972
509 Arabian Nights Pier Paolo Pasolini 1974
510 Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom Pier Paolo Pasolini 1975
511 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Tony Richardson 1962
512 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Karel Reisz 1960
513 A Taste of Honey Tony Richardson 1961
515 Mad Love Karl Freund 1935
516 The Stone Tape Peter Sasdy 1972
517 Whistle and I'll Come to You 1968
518 Delius - Song of Summer Ken Russell 1968
519 Alice in Wonderland Jonathan Miller 1966
520 Nosferatu
521 The Iron Horse John Ford 1924
523 The Adventures of Prince Achmed
525 Burning an Illusion Menelik Shabazz
526 Dickens Before Sound
527 George Washington
528 La Belle et La Bete
533 Throne of Blood Akira Kurosawa
534 Stray Dog Akira Kurosawa
535 Phil Mulloy - Extreme Animation
536 Red Beard Akira Kurosawa
537 The Caretaker
538 Man with a Movie Camera
539 The Navigators
540 Journey to Italy
542 Campfire Bavo Defurne
543 The War Game
544 Culloden
545 A River Called Titas
546 The Cloud-Capped Star
548 Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film
549 Bande à part Jean-Luc Godard 1964
551 Cathy Come Home
552 The Year of the Sex Olympics
553 The Signalman
554 A Warning to the Curious
556 Ghostwatch
558 Charlie Chaplin - The Essanay Films - Volume 1
559 Charlie Chaplin - The Essanay Films - Volume 2
560 The Name of a River
562 Sixth Happiness
563 The Draughtsman's Contract Peter Greenaway
564 A Zed And Two Noughts Peter Greenaway
565 The Early Films of Peter Greenaway - Volume 2 Peter Greenaway
566 The Early Films of Peter Greenaway - Volume 1 Peter Greenaway
567 Un chant d'amour
568 To Sleep With Anger
570 The Charge of the Light Brigade
571 An Actor's Revenge
576 Partie de campagne
577 Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter Edwin S. Porter
578 La Kermesse Heroique
579 Piccadilly
580 Ossessione
581 La Terra Trema
582 Sanjuro Akira Kurosawa
583 La Regle de Jeu
585 Norman McLaren - Collector's Edition - Selected Films / The Creative Process (Region 1 DVD)
586 Maitresse
587 More
589 The Edge of the World
590 The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 1 - On And Off The Rails
591 Ikiru Akira Kurosawa
592 Le Cercle Rouge
593 Leon Morin, pretre
594 Le Doulos
595 The Leopard
596 A is for Autism
597 Orphee
599 Immaterial Bodies - A Cultural Analysis of Early Russian Films
600 Kirikou and the Sorceress
601 Playtime Jacques Tati 1967
602 Les Vacances de M. Hulot Jacques Tati 1953
603 Jour de Fête Jacques Tati 1949
604 Mon Oncle Jacques Tati 1958
605 Charlie Chaplin - The Mutual Films - Volume 1
606 Charlie Chaplin - The Mutual Films - Volume 2
611 Carmen Jones
612 Fallen Angel
613 Where the Sidewalk Ends
614 Whirlpool
615 Night and the City
616 Frank Borzage - Volume 2 - Lucky Star / Liliom
618 Frank Borzage - Volume 1 - 7th Heaven / Street Angel
619 The River
620 Pink Narcissus
621 Electric Edwardians - The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon
622 Tristana
623 Un Chien Andalou / L'Âge d'or Luis Buñuel 1929/1930
624 Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
625 Temenos
628 Magick Lantern Cycle Kenneth Anger
631 Visions of Light
632 Jan Svankmajer - The Complete Short Films Jan Svankmajer
634 Les Enfants Terribles
636 High and Low Akira Kurosawa
637 The Bad Sleep Well Akira Kurosawa
638 Drunken Angel Akira Kurosawa
639 I Live in Fear Akira Kurosawa
642 R W Paul - The Collected Films 1895-1908 R. W. Paul
643 Early Cinema - Primitives And Pioneers
644 Under the Skin
645 Woman in the Dunes
646 British Artists' Films - William Raban
647 British Artists' Films - Chris Welsby
648 People on Sunday
651 Gallivant
652 Looking For Langston
653 Quay Brothers - The Short Films - 1979-2003
654 Silent Shakespeare
656 Paris nous appartient
657 Celine and Julie Go Boating
658 Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media
659 Dreams That Money Can Buy
661 The Threepenny Opera
664 Master of the House
665 Ordet
666 Day of Wrath
667 Gertrud
671 Danger - Love at Work
672 Bigger Than Life
673 Cry of the City
675 The Innocents
678 What Price Glory
679 The Mysterians
680 Godzilla
689 Radio On Christopher Petit
692 The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon
694 Mikio Naruse Collection Mikio Naruse - Contains When a Woman Ascends the Stairs / Floating Clouds / Late Chrysanthemums
696 Baadasssss!
697 The Mahabharata
701 Alex Cox - Straight To Hell / Death and the Compass Alex Cox
703 Alex Cox - Three Businessmen / Highway Patrolman Alex Cox
709 Five
710 Regarde la Mer and Other Short Films
711 The Cinematic Works
712 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
713 L'armée des ombres
714 Pressure / Baldwin's Nigger Horace Ové
715 The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 2 - See Britain By Train
716 Killer of Sheep
717 Free Cinema
719 Science Is Fiction / The Sounds of Science
720 The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 3 - Running A Railway
721 The Night of Truth
722 Silent Waters
724 The Angelic Conversation
725 Wittgenstein
726 Caravaggio
727 The Lost World of Friese-Greene
728 Silent Britain
730 British Artists' Films - Ian Breakwell
731 British Artists' Films - Jayne Parker
732 Bill Douglas Trilogy - My Childhood / My Ain Folk / My Way Home
733 Distant Voices, Still Lives
734 A Throw of Dice
735 Borderline
737 Mitchell & Kenyon In Ireland
738 Mitchell & Kenyon - Edwardian Sports
739 The Open Road
741 Theorem
742 Red Desert
743 The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 4 - Reshaping British Railways
744 The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 5 - Off The Beaten Track
745 The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 6 - The Art of Travel
746 The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 7 - The Age of the Train
747 The Lost World of Tibet
749 The Long Day Closes
750 Peter Whitehead And The Sixties
752 The Terence Davies Trilogy Terence Davies Contains Children / Madonna and Child / Death and Transfiguration
753 Still Life
754 Syndromes And A Century
756 Land of Promise - The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950
758 The GPO Film Unit Collection - Volume 1 - Addressing The Nation
759 The GPO Film Unit Collection - Volume 2 - We Live In Two Worlds
760 The GPO Film Unit Collection - Volume 3 - If War Should Come
762 The Joy of Sex Education
764 The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 8 - Points And Aspects
770 Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
771 La Belle Et La Bete
772 Orphee
773 Man With A Movie Camera
775 Gazwrx - The Films of Jeff Keen Jeff Keen
776 Love Is The Devil - Study For A Portrait of Francis Bacon
778 Black Five - The Last Days of Steam
782 Manufactured Landscapes
783 My Brother's Wedding
786 Bodysong
788 Anchoress
789 Of Time and the City
795 Lotte Reiniger - The Fairy Tale Films
796 The Animals Film
797 Derek
799 The Gigolos
800 Classic Kurosawa Stray Dog / Ikiru / I Live in Fear / Throne of Blood / Red Beard
805 The Jacques Tati Collection Jacques Tati Includes Jour de Fete / Mon Oncle / Les Vacances de M. Hulot / Playtime / Parade
806 The British Transport Films Collection
808 Parade Jacques Tati 1974
809 The British Transport Films Collection - Volume 9 - Just The Ticket
817 Central Bazaar
818 The Gold Diggers
822 Herostratus BFI Flipside #04
824 Winstanley
825 Shadows of Progress - Documentary Films In Post-War Britain 1951-1977
826 Chaplin At Keystone Various
828 Separation
829 The Other Side of the Underneath
831 The Pleasure Garden
833 Night Mail
834 The Bed Sitting Room BFI Flipside #01
835 Privilege BFI Flipside #07
839 Primitive London BFI Flipside #03
840 London in the Raw BFI Flipside #02
842 This Filthy Earth
843 The Adelphi Collection - Penny Points to Paradise / Let's Go Crazy
844 Black Jack
845 That Kind of Girl BFI Flipside #08
846 Man of Violence BFI Flipside #06
847 The Miners' Campaign Tapes
848 Shirin
850 Playing Away
851 National Coal Board Collection - Volume 1 - Portrait of a Miner
852 All the Right Noises BFI Flipside #05
853 The Exiles
855 The COI Collection - Volume 2 - Design For Today
856 Bodysong (Collector's Edition)
858 Permissive BFI Flipside #09
860 The COI Collection - Volume 1 - Police And Thieves
861 Secrets of Nature
866 Young Soul Rebels
870 Film Noir Classics Includes Fallen Angel / Whirlpool / Night And The City / Where The Sidewalk Ends
871 The Terence Davies Collection Includes Children / Madonna and Child / Death and Transfiguration / Distant Voices, Still Lives / The Long Day Closes / Of Time and the City
876 The Erotic Films of Peter De Rome
878 BFI Flipside Presents Kim Newman's Guide To The Flipside of British Cinema
882 The COI Collection - Volume 3 - They Stand Ready
893 Prostitute
895 Enid Blyton's - The Famous Five - Five on a Treasure Island
896 Enid Blyton's - The Famous Five - Five Have a Mystery to Solve
898 Central Office of Information + Mordant Music = Misinformation
899 The COI Collection - Volume 4 - Stop! Look! Listen!
900 Tales From The Shipyard - Britain's Shipbuilding Heritage On Film
902 Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece Contains French version with English subtitles and English dubbed version
903 Tintin and the Blue Oranges
905 Early Kurosawa Contains Sanshuro Sugata / Sanshuro Sugata No 2 / The Most Beautiful / The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail / No Regrets for Our Youth / One Wonderful Sunday
906 Enid Blyton's - The Famous Five - Five on a Treasure Island Includes book
907 Enid Blyton's - The Famous Five - Five Have a Mystery to Solve Includes book
908 Shane Meadows - Small Time / Where's the Money Ronnie? Shane Meadows
909 Silent Scream
912 The Molly Dineen Collection - Volume 1
913 The Molly Dineen Collection - Volume 2
914 The Molly Dineen Collection - Volume 3
917 An Unflinching Eye - The Films of Richard Woolley
920 Here's A Health To The Barley Mow
921 The COI Collection - Volume 5 - Portrait of A People
923 The Miners' Hymns
926 London and Robinson in Space
927 The Ozu Collection - The Student Comedies
928 Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece Contains English dubbed version only
929 The Adelphi Collection - Fun at St. Fanny's
930 The Adelphi Collection - You Lucky People!
931 The Adelphi Collection - Miss Tulip Stays the Night / The Great Game
934 Kurosawa Crime Collection Akira Kurosawa - Includes Stray Dog / High and Low / The Bad Sleep Well / Drunken Angel
935 The COI Collection - Volume 6 - Worth The Risk?
938 Encounters
939 Kurosawa Classic Collection Akira Kurosawa - Includes The Lower Depths / Red Beard / Ikiru / I Live in Fear / Dodes'ka-den
940 The Devils Ken Russell 1971 19 March 2012
941 This Our Still Life

Blu-ray

These are all preceded by the catalogue code BFIB, e.g. BFIB1033

All titles are dual format titles unless where stated

# Title Director Year Release Date Notes
1001 Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom Pier Paolo Pasolini Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format.
1002 Red Desert Michelangelo Antonioni Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format
1003 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Tony Richardson Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format
1004 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Karel Reisz Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format
1005 Bodysong Simon Pummell Blu-ray only
1007 Pier Paolo Pasolini: Trilogy of Life Pier Paolo Pasolini Blu-ray only. Later re-issued individually in dual format
1008 Gazwrx - The Films of Jeff Keen Blu-ray only
1010 Magick Lantern Cycle Kenneth Anger Blu-ray only
1011 The Other Side of the Underneath Jane Arden Blu-ray only
1019 The Bed-Sitting Room Richard Lester BFI Flipside #1. Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format
1020 Primitive London Norman Cohen and Arnold L. Miller BFI Flipside #3. Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format
1021 London in the Raw Norman Cohen and Arnold L. Miller BFI Flipside #2. Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format
1022 Separation Jack Bond Blu-ray only
1025 Privilege Peter Watkins BFI Flipside #?. Blu-ray only
1026 That Kind of Girl Gerry O'Hara BFI Flipside #?. Blu-ray only
1028 Penny Points to Paradise / Let's Go Crazy Tony Young and Alan Cullimore The Adelphi Collection. Blu-ray only
1030 The Edge of the World Michael Powell Blu-ray only
1031 The Leopard Luchino Visconti Blu-ray only
1032 The Innocents Jack Clayton 1961 Blu-ray only
1033 Institute Benjamenta Brothers Quay
1034 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush Clive Donner BFI Flipside #12.
1035 Permissive Lindsay Shonteff BFI Flipside #9. Blu-ray only. Later re-issued in dual format
1039 The Valley (Obscured by Clouds) Barbet Schroeder
1040 More Barbet Schroeder 1969
1042 Lunch Hour James Hill BFI Flipside #17.
1050 Les Vacances de M. Hulot Jacques Tati 1953
1051 Playtime Jacques Tati 1967
1056 The Ozu Collection - Tokyo Story / Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family Yasujirō Ozu
1057 The Party's Over Guy Hamilton 1965 BFI Flipside #11.
1059 L'Âge d'or Luis Buñuel 1930
1061 A Zed And Two Noughts Peter Greenaway 1985 Blu-ray only
1062 Joanna Michael Sarne 1968 BFI Flipside #16.
1064 Bronco Bullfrog Barney Platts-Mills 1969 BFI Flipside #13.
1065 Private Road Barney Platts-Mills 1971 BFI Flipside #14.
1068 The Ozu Collection - Late Spring / The Only Son Yasujirō Ozu
1069 The Ozu Collection - Early Summer / What Did the Lady Forget? Yasujirō Ozu
1070 The Ozu Collection - Good Morning / I Was Born, But... Yasujirō Ozu
1071 The Ozu Collection - Equinox Flower / There Was a Father Yasujirō Ozu
1072 The Ozu Collection - An Autumn Afternoon / A Hen in the Wind Yasujirō Ozu
1073 The Ozu Collection - Late Autumn / A Mother Should be Loved Yasujirō Ozu
1075 The Adelphi Collection - Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? / My Wife's Lodger
1077 Loving Memory
1083 Duffer / The Moon Over the Alley BFI Flipside #15.
1084 The Adelphi Collection - The Crowded Day / Song of Paris Maurice Elvey and John Guillermin
1085 The Great White Silence Herbert Ponting 1924
1086 The Pleasure Girls Gerry O'Hara 1965 BFI Flipside #10.
1088 Medea Pier Paolo Pasolini 1969
1095 Alice Jan Svankmajer 1988
1096 Requiem for a Village BFI Flipside #18.
1097 A Day In The Life - Four Portraits of Post-War Britain By John Krish
1098 Robinson in Ruins Patrick Keiller 2010
1099 Before the Revolution Bernardo Bertolucci 1964
1101 The Bed-Sitting Room BFI Flipside #1. Dual format reissue
1102 London in the Raw BFI Flipside #2. Dual format reissue
1103 Primitive London BFI Flipside #3. Dual format reissue
1104 Herostratus BFI Flipside #4. Dual format reissue
1105 All the Right Noises BFI Flipside #5. Dual format reissue
1106 Man of Violence BFI Flipside #6. Dual format reissue
1107 Privilege BFI Flipside #7. Dual format reissue
1108 That Kind of Girl BFI Flipside #8. Dual format reissue
1109 Permissive BFI Flipside #9. Dual format reissue
1110 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Dual format reissue
1111 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Dual format reissue
1112 Magick Lantern Cycle Kenneth Anger
1114 Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1115 The Decameron
1116 The Canterbury Tales
1117 Arabian Nights
1118 French Cancan
1119 The Complete Humphrey Jennings - Volume 1 - The First Days
1123 Little Malcolm And His Struggle Against The Eunuchs BFI Flipside #20.
1124 Her Private Hell BFI Flipside #22.
1130 The Soviet Influence - From Turksib To Night Mail
1131 Deep End BFI Flipside #19.
1132 Voice Over BFI Flipside #21.
1133 Nightbirds BFI Flipside #23.
1134 Red Desert
1137 A Bigger Splash
1219 Farewell My Concubine Chen Kaige 1993
1246 Culloden/The War Game Peter Watkins 1964/1965

The BFI have said that where a suitable master exists they will release titles on dual format Blu-ray/DVD, otherwise the titles will receive a DVD only release. There are a number of titles that have had separate DVD and Blu-ray releases. These have now been deleted and are now available in dual format releases. There are a number of other titles that will also be combined to dual format releases during 2012

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