Milestone Birthday Films · UK

Eighty years.
Eight minutes. One room, silent.

A film of a whole life so far, cut from the photographs the family has been hoarding in lofts and phones — ready to play on the night, on any screen, with the lights down.

  • 18th
  • 21st
  • 30th
  • 40th
  • 50th
  • 60th
  • 65th
  • 70th
  • 80th
  • 90th
  • 100th
Why a film

The cards get thrown away.
This gets watched every year.

A milestone birthday is the one occasion when a whole family digs out photographs at the same time — and then they go back in the drawer. We take that pile, put it in order, set it to the right music, and hand you something to play when the room goes quiet.

2 wk

Standard delivery

3–4d

Rush delivery

HD

Any screen

From £70

A 60th, chaptered

  1. 1

    1965–1975

    Childhood

    Black-and-white, seaside, a bad haircut

  2. 2

    1975–1985

    Coming up

    School photos, first car, the wedding

  3. 3

    1985–2005

    The busy years

    Babies, holidays, the extension

  4. 4

    2005–now

    Grandchildren

    Everything on a phone, finally in focus

What you get

Made properly, kept quiet.

Everyone contributes

Aunties, old schoolfriends, the cousin in Australia — messages and photographs come in from all of them and none of it reaches the person it is for.

Kept secret until the night

Your private order link is yours alone. Nothing is posted, nothing is sent to them, nothing spoils it.

Plays anywhere

A plain HD file that runs from a laptop, a phone or a USB stick — pub function room, village hall or living room telly.

Edited by hand

Every frame placed by a person who has watched the whole lot through first. No template, no auto-slideshow.

Every milestone

Whichever one it is, we have made it before.

Tell us the milestone when you order and it goes on the title card — and shapes how far back we reach for photographs.

  • 18th
  • 21st
  • 30th
  • 40th
  • 50th
  • 60th
  • 65th
  • 70th
  • 80th
  • 90th
  • 100th
To go with it

Personalised birthday gifts.

Engraved keepsakes made to order with their name on — photo albums to fill, a candle for the table, a crystal token for the mantelpiece, a locket that will be worn.

Browse birthday gifts
  • Engraved to order

    Their name, the milestone and the date, in the wording you choose.

  • Made and posted from the UK

    Delivery times are shown on each piece before you buy.