Access to more than 2,500 film and television programmes will be available at the click of a mouse in Bradford.

Yorkshire’s only British Film Institute Mediatheque contains British films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive and partner archives, including a selection from the National Media Museum’s TV Heaven collection and the Yorkshire Film Archive.

The archive will be available at the National Media Museum in Bradford, where visitors can turn up, sit at a viewing station and start browsing.

This month’s launch will feature a screening of God’s Own County: Yorkshire on Screen, specially-curated footage featuring 100 films and programmes offering a “dazzling insight into the rich heritage of film-making in the county”.

Highlights include a filmic journey through Victorian Bradford in 1896; classic post-war film Billy Liar; reproductions of the Great Yorkshire Show at Bradford in 1901; a 1976 profile of Mohamed Fazal Hussain, founding member of Bradford’s Pakistani community and a part-time action movie director, The Arbor, a drama-documentary about Buttershaw playwright Andrea Dunbar; Rita, Sue and Bob Too, the 1986 film based on Dunbar’s play about two teenagers from a Bradford council estate and a married man; David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, a documentary marking the Bradford artist’s return to Yorkshire; and Andrea Arnold’s 2010 film of Wuthering Heights.

Other local items in the archives include a turn-of-the-century Punch and Judy show in Halifax; home movies of Hull’s pioneering aviator Amy Johnson; Helen of Four Gates, a 1920 silent melodrama shot around Hebden Bridge; and pilot episodes of Last of the Summer Wine and All Creatures Great and Small.

There is also vintage Morecambe and Wise and Top of the Pops, Edwardian natural history and The Open Road (1926), a journey through Britain from Land’s End to John O Groats.

Bradford is the latest addition to BFI Mediatheques, with others located in Glasgow, London, Derby, Cambridge, Newcastle and Wrexham.

Amanda Nevill, BFI chief executive, said: “Being Yorkshire born and bred and having worked in the city for many years, including at the National Media Museum, Bradford has a special place in my heart. It’s an incredibly vital city with a rich screen heritage alongside dynamic new film initiatives, including an ambitious new partnership with Whistling Woods studio in Mumbai to create a film school in the city.

“It’s a pleasure to announce that Bradford will be the seventh BFI Mediatheque across the UK, giving the people of Yorkshire free access to hours of well-loved and lesser-known treasures from our great national cinematic heritage.”

Michael Terwey, head of collections and exhibitions at the National Media Museum, said: “The museum is a natural partner for the country’s most extensive and free-to-use film and TV programme archive. The BFI Mediatheque will give users their own viewing stations from which they can choose from a collection of more than 2,500 titles representing the history of cinema and television in this country, most of which cannot be seen anywhere else.”

* For more about Yorkshire’s Mediatheque go to bfi.org.uk/mediatheque.