Movies: Birmingham

Dating back to the 1800s, Birmingham’s roller skating scene is a flourishing, diverse community - but it lacks dedicated spaces. This community documentary explores the history of one roller venue, The Tower Ballroom, and considers what it tells us ...

When filmmaker Andy Howlett set out with his camera to document the final days of Birmingham's Brutalist Central Library complex, little did he know the rabbit hole he was stumbling into. Decried by the Council as an eyesore, but hailed by Historic E...

An engineering feat: Second city civil engineers complete a new bridge to carry traffic over New Street's tangled railway intersections....

A fringe communist party struggles to entrench itself within a pro-Palestinian encampment at a British university. Meanwhile, in 1967, the New Left grapples with an unconvinced public....

The tragic tailspin of a clown who’s body begins to disappear....

Black and white 16mm film sequences of Birmingham....