Research Resources

 
BFI Rueben Library

CID database (more than 1 million filmographic records and details of our film and television holdings)

Research Viewings Services

BFI Special Collections (personal papers, unpublished scripts, film ephemera, stills, posters and designs)

Our online reference resources offer expertly curated and contextualised guides to British film and TV history, with extensive digitised moving image material; additionally, thousands of titles from our collections are made available at:

 BFI Player (including 11,000 free archive films, their number growing as more titles get digitised)

BFI Mediatheques

BFI Statistics

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