Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parties and then the military after rumors spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague.

A young boy makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, which comes to life at midnight and takes him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.

One spring, Mole decides that he can ignore the spring cleaning for a little longer, and begins a series of adventures with his new friend Rat. They go for a picnic on the riverbank, on a caravan expedition with Toad, until Toad switches allegiance to his new car and his reckless driving makes Mole and Rat search out Badger for help in curbing Toad's profligate habits. But Toad gets away from them and gets a 20-year sentence from the magistrate for theft, reckless driving, and Gross Impertinence. While Toad works his wiles on the jailer's daughter and escapes jail dressed as a washer woman, Badger tries to guard Toad Hall from the machinations of the Weasels and is badly beaten. And it requires a plan of attack and all four comrades to regain Toad Hall.

Designed with young audiences in mind, this award-winning animated film (created with labor-intensive stop-motion techniques) brings Kenneth Grahame's classic children's book to life. When the villainous Weasel and his crew of thugs kidnap an unsuspecting Toad and send an impostor to take over Toad Hall, Badger, Rat and Mole aren't fooled. But can they figure out a way to save their friend before it's too late?

In the 21st century Mankind will have pushed back the frontiers of science in a way we can scarcely conceive of today. Space exploration, energy development and biological as well as environmental sciences will enable the earth to progress beyond our wildest dreams. Alongside such far-reaching changes will come new and unsuspected hazards. One organization will be ready, International Rescue with its fleet of Thunderbirds. Join the crew of these fantastic crafts on ARCOLOGY, a vast city complex in the Pacific, where they are ready to face any danger, no matter how desperate.

A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.

Four animals named Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad try to navigate the Riverbank as well as the Wild Wood.

Rupert Bear goes on a walk in the hills near his home, where he encounters a community of frogs who join together in a musical extravaganza.

Three exciting stories of science fiction adventure set many years in the future. The Earth, once the hub of the Galaxy and its judicial system, is now wasteland. This and its survivors are all that is left of a bygone age after the most vicious intergalactic war ever seen. The Earth's colonies are devoid of any law enforcement system. It is the survival of the fittest (or meanest). The only law left is Ragnarok, a hard-hitting enforcer and his alien friend Smith, who travel the Universe in an attempt to see fair play.

International Rescue sends the incredible Thunderbirds on the most dangerous rescue missions yet. They must save the Empire State Building from collapsing on New York City and at the same time battle a deadly fire blazing out of control in a mid-Atlantic oil station.

In 1376, the city of Hamelin is freed from a plague of hungry rats by a mysterious Piper who plays a tune and leads the vermin on a mery dance out of town and straight in to the river. But the greedy city Governers refuse to pay their agreed fee, so the Piper wreaks a terible revenge. He plays his pipe once more, only this time he leads all the children of Hamelin away to a magical mountain portal, from which they never return...

A fully digitized computer-animated film which shows the question whether man will use his inventive abilities for destruction or as the key to progressive creation.

Granpa tells stories to his granddaughter Emily, who imagines them as crayon drawings in motion.

Featuring the voiceover of Sir Anthony Hopkins, this public information film from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society starts out rather innocently with beautiful hand-painted animation. It describes how once a year a large group of pilot whales swim to a small group of islands known as the Faroe Islands.

A short, stop-frame animation. The film uses puppets to tell Hans Christian Andersen's tale about the song of a nightingale heard by the little kitchen girl at the Emperor of China's palace.

Brought to the screen by award winning animation team Cosgrove Hall, 'The Wind In The Willows' brings to life the charming adventures of our four intrepid animal friends in a truly magical experience for all the family. In 'Winter Tales' join our lovable friends in three exciting seasonal stories - 'The Yuletide Entertainment', 'Winter Sports', and 'The Rescue' - that will both entertain and delight viewers of all ages.

All is peaceful in the lovely land of RARG, that is, until an old professor & a tiny baby make an alarming discovery about the nature of dreams...

A humorous and thought-provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings.

This claymation short film uses a real interview for dialogue. Bill Perry relates stories about his youth, his tilted house, and adventures during WWII in Bristol, England during the blitz. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Calling International Resuce… a runaway rocket carrying three astronauts is heading for a collision course with the Sun… Impact imminent!

British animation short from Paul Vester.

Part of Sweet Disaster; a 1986 series of short films made for Channel 4. It consists of "animated visions of the apocalypse".

A BAFTA award nominated animation.

A compilation of two episodes from the Supermarionation series Thunderbirds. A new super satellite has gone into orbit. Permanently manned, it is now in space to help humanity as the monitor station always on the alert to spot trouble, receive messages for help and set in motion the world's most exciting organisation, International Rescue...

An army conscript fights his way through a series of hallucinatory scenarios in which he is confronted by a series of bizarre attackers - who, one by one, turn out to be his army friends.

A family of foxes raid a farm to get a turkey for Christmas dinner and survive the winter. However, the farmer and his domineering wife are aware of their presence and are intent on shooting them down.

In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys from the child's head, leaving him without the top of his head for most of the film. The professor then teaches the lad about illusions and perspectives, the pursuit of an object through exploring a bank of drawers, divining an object, and the migration of forms. The child then brings out a box with a tarantula in it: the professor puts his "hands" into the box and describes what he feels. The boy receives a final lesson about animation and film making; then the professor gives him a brain and his own open-book hat.

A 1990 animated film in the adventure and fantasy genre, produced for S4C by a collaboration between S4C and Soyuzmultfilm. The film's plot unfolds in a magical world where a young king's son, Culhwch, sets out in search of the stolen fairy Olwen. The girl has been kidnapped by a sinister giant in black robes, and Culhwch must overcome numerous obstacles to rescue her. His journey is incredibly dangerous, as he encounters magical creatures and enchanted objects along the way. Gradually, the hero realises that not only physical strength but also kindness of heart, forgiveness, and intelligence can help overcome difficulties. Two versions were released, with notable differences (production and voice actors, line changes/insertions) between the two.

Finding out what is atop a sunbeam.

Chris Shepherd's first film from 1989 made while he was on the dole with a borrowed super 8 camera.

A shepherd’s son befriends a dragon, who is more inclined to compose poetry than attack the frightened villagers.

Dark animation examining the thin line between human definitions of war and peace. Part of Sweet Disaster; a 1986 series of short films made for Channel 4. It consists of “animated visions of the apocalypse”.

This film, set to Ponta de Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma) by Jorge Ben, was created to accompany Beleza Tropical: Brazil Classics 1, the first in a series of albums compiled by David Byrne to promote the unique music published by Brazilian artists during a repressive period of military rule in the 1970’s-1980’s. The aim was to visually invoke the album’s sensual and lyrical breadth and depth, and to subtly reflect the underlying social and political issues of that time.

Various fables of human conflict and redemption, stimulating the imagination through magic, mysticism and humour.

Watch Thomas in his very first adventure, as he cheekily tries to pass a danger sign. To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Thomas & Friends, this unique pilot episode, filmed in 1983, is now available for everyone to enjoy for the very first time.

Part of Sweet Disaster; a 1986 series of short films made for Channel 4. It consists of “animated visions of the apocalypse”.

Welcome to Rocky Hollow a secret place where children can watch the characters Mr Oak, Sycamore, Acron, Miss Myrtle, Conker & Rosie The Post Pigeon having picnics, exercising, magic tricks or just having various activities together in Rocky Hollow.

The morning shift at a big-city radio station.

Svankmajer's music video for Hugh Cornwell's "Another Kind of Love."

A celebration of "Enterprise Britain"; The progress of two nightshift cleaners in a towering exhibition centre. Primed for a Royal visitor the following day, the delicate automated infrastructure of the building is compromised by two idiots looking for somewhere to plug in their hoover. Nightmareish video and mechanical apparitions steal their identity as the celebratory monolith descends into terminal chaos.

A animated mixed-media music video of a prisioner who is in a chest of drawers breaks out of his cell...

Long after debuting on British television in the 1980s, this popular cartoon series for kids -- narrated by the ghostly Willo (who is, in fact, a mere wisp) -- now enjoys a comfortable cult status among adults. Hounded by the meddlesome Evil Edna -- a wicked witch who inhabits a TV set -- Mavis, Carwash, Arthur and the other inhabitants of Doyley Woods (voiced by Carry On star Kenneth Williams) do their best to stay out of her way.

The local truant officer informs Mrs. Brown (Paddington's keeper) that since he is of age, Paddington must go to school.

This rich, symbolic, intensely personal yet universal film wordlessly follows the path of a woman on a journey of self-discovery.

Black-and-white, etched-wood animation tale about the Grim Reaper. In a remote forest, Death in disguise calls on a woman and her baby daughter.

Paddington, having just seen Gene Kelly on the cinema screen, takes to the streets in a rain storm with his umbrella. Join him as he starts singin' and dancin' in the rain.

Feelings of fear and isolation felt by an elderly woman navigating the new urban environments that had increasingly replaced traditional working class communities in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

Experimental stop-motion film by Dave Borthwick.

A probationer wants to miss a meeting to go and see his brother, but must negotiate with his officer.

A door-to-door salesman tries to use the gift of the gab to sell an elderly couple things they don't really need.

Short by Vera Neubauer.

An educational film about proper hygiene.

Short animated film centred on Kenny Everett's sci-fi character, Captain Kremmen, a pastiche of Dan Dare.

An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show.

Animated video to accompany the record of the same name, released under the pseudonym of Suzy and the Red Stripes, but in reality Wings' with Linda on lead vocals.

An extremely obscure minute-long short by the Brothers Quay in 1989. Animation appears to be done in 'Cutout' style, is abstract and plotless - more a moving painting than anything else. Featured on the 'Inner Sanctums' blu-ray boxset featuring a vast collection of shorts by the Quay brothers.

An updated version of Halas and Batchelor's short film, 'The Magic Canvas', with a new electronic score.

Igor: The Paris Years, one segment of a larger biographical program created for Channel 4 on the life and times of Igor Stravinsky, finds the brothers working in a slightly different vein than the one that would come to characterize their later work. This is the first section, which covers the pianist’s “French period” from roughly 1920-1939, and it details, among other things, his connection with Jean Cocteau (who, as a matter of fact, contributes voice work to this project). Filtered through gonzo and impressionistic puppetry (often bearing strong resemblance to the work of Terry Gilliam), the film takes an unconventional and often beautiful stab at the television biography special.

A magnet moves on a floor. A moth beats against a window. A doll child watches the magnet; threads of metal filings gather around the magnet.