FutureLearn courses

How to Make a Short Film: An Introduction to Filmmaking

This free course has been specially designed to help anyone interested in filmmaking to master the essentials and start making their own work.

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Film Education: A User’s Guide

Film education from the BFI, and its partners, the Danish Film Institute, Cinémathèque Française and Vision Kino.

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Short Film in Language Teaching

Find out how teaching with short film can bring alive the learning of languages and introduce rich cultural content to lessons.

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The Living Picture Craze: An Introduction to Victorian Film

Film takes a starring role in this course exploring the emergence of a new medium that was set to capture the world's imagination.

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The Open University short courses

A Story of Documentary Film

Documentary has been described as Britain’s greatest contribution to cinema. This six-week course traces the development of the documentary form in this country from the late Victorian period to the present day.

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Reading the Screen: An Introduction to the Art of Film

Over six weeks you’ll be introduced to a wide range of films – short, global, archive, experimental and animated. These aim to challenge the way you watch moving images.

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Media, Politics and Society

Using a range of films and programmes from the BFI National Archive as key texts, this course explores themes and topics such as media and propaganda, fake news, and the nature of the media’s relationship with democratic politics.

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