My films

The 'My films' feature allows you to build a personal list of films from the Moving Image Archive catalogue. To add films to your list use the 'Add to my films' button on the full description page for each film or in your search results.

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Films with full length videos

		BORN TO RUN [7285] Would you regret falling in love if it meant never leaving your home town? Set against the decline of this fishing industry, a 17 year-old boy racer and his girlfriend are desperate to be alone together while the boy's parents reflect separately on the choices they made 18 years before.	Onsite only	2006 sound col
		BREAKING [8057] Davie and Tony's fragile relationship as brothers is tested further by the revelation that they both love the same woman.	Onsite only	2006 sound col
		BURN YOUR PHONE [7877] Short film. Andy is a telephone operator working at the Hastings telephone exchange. Everyday he copes with emergencies but on this particular day he has to deal with a series of calls from someone threatening to kill him.	Onsite only	1996 sound col

Films without videos

		BEDFORDS, the [8117] The Bedfords tells the story of Landseer's visit to the Duke of Bedford and family in their Scottish Highland estate. Commissioned to paint a grand family portrait, Landseer begins a lusty affair with his subject the Duchess of Bedford. Tormented by the pressures of commissions and the forbidden affair, a mental breakdown in the artist ensues and so begins his spiralling descent into madness.		2008 sound col
		BEYOND THE HIGHLANDS [7944] The director undertakes a cathartic trip to his homeland of Caithness to give him the strength to finally end his addiction problems.		2002 sound col
		BUTTERFLY MAN, the [7528] An unemployed ex-coal miner becomes a recluse, obsessed with breeding butterflies in the garden of his home in a mining village near Edinburgh. Family and friends are frustrated in their attempts to encourage him out of his self-imposed exile and his teenage son, angry and bewildered by his father’s withdrawal, is finally driven to extreme action in a bid to regain his father’s attention and affection.		1996 sound col