Britain's first talking movie was recorded there, as were films starring British actors Gracie Fields, Peter Sellers and John Mills.

Producer George Clark and actor/director Guy Newall had been making films at a small studio on Ebury Street in Central London.

[2] In the late 1920s, British Lion took over the studios producing a number of Edgar Wallace adaptations.

The first Wallace and Gromit film, A Grand Day Out was started by Oscar-winning director Nick Park whilst he was a student at NFTS, and like all works created at the school, the film is credited as being the copyright of NFTS.

To modernise and expand the teaching and administrative space, the NFTS commissioned Glen Howells Architects to design a three-storey building (see photo).

In 2017, an additional teaching building opened on the site of a number of yellow classrooms on the north side of the site, and it houses a new studio, edit suites, dedicated sound design suites, as well as multi-purpose teaching spaces.

The "Channel 4 Rose Building",[9] also opened in 2017, incorporates teaching facilities, as well as an extra 60-seat cinema, café and incubation space.