London Film School (LFS) today announces a year-long YouTube archive series to mark its 70th anniversary in 2026, celebrating seven decades of filmmaking talent by releasing a curated selection of its archival films on YouTube throughout the year.
From January to December 2026, LFS will premiere twelve monthly strands of LFS films drawn from across its history. Each strand brings together works from throughout the decades, curated to highlight enduring themes in filmmaking while revealing how cinematic language, technology and lived experience have evolved over time. The programme offers audiences a rare opportunity to explore the School’s archive and to trace creative parallels between generations of filmmakers working up to seventy years apart.
The first strand, On Film, is available now on the London Film School YouTube channel. Featured films include Two or Three Things I Know About Film (1985), Ada (2018), Hollywood Song (1970) and Outside In (2002).
As the lifeblood of LFS, film is inseparable from the lives and experiences of its makers. Through the prints struck over the years, On Film offers insights into students’ complex relationship with celluloid and what it means “to film”. By establishing a dialogue between the earliest days of LFS and the present day, the strand challenges our understanding of film as a medium, and the messages it carries.
Founded in 1956, LFS has played a vital role in the development of international cinema, with graduates going on to shape film, television and digital media across the world. The anniversary programme reflects the School’s commitment to both its history and its future, foregrounding student voices while opening its archive to a global audience.
LFS students have explored the ways cinema can engage us in conversations from the personal to the political, the ephemeral to the esoteric, and everything in between. These films chart the transformation of London itself from its home in the centre of Covent Garden, while also revealing something timeless: that the commitment to storytelling, the determination to capture truth, is an ambition at the core of each generation of LFS filmmakers.
New strands will be released monthly throughout 2026, each accompanied by contextual editorial content designed to deepen engagement and encourage reflection on the changing – and enduring – nature of filmmaking.
The On Film strand is available now on YouTube curated by James Madeja.
Wider activity to celebrate the 70th anniversary programme will be announced throughout the year. For more information, visit lfs.org.uk.
