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Big Flame, The (1969 Video)

Director

Ken Loach

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; Politics & government

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 85 min.

Traces the progress of a strike in Loverpool’s docks following the Devlin Report, which advocated the abolition of casual labour. The workers take over Liverpool docks. The central figure is a...

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Age of Kings, An (2013 Video)

aka: Shakespeare’s an Age of Kings

Series

Age of Kings, An

Director

Michael Hayes

Producer

Peter Dews

5-disc DVD box set of the fifteen-part BBC series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies). The Illuminations release also features THE MAKING OF AN AGE...

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An Age of Kings released on DVD

Date

5 Dec 2013, 18:07

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

Post

An Age of Kings is the BBC's compelling 15-part series from 1960 of William Shakespeare's great national pageant of eight History plays. Watched by over three million viewers, it remains the most ambitious...

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Spongers, The (1978 Film, Video)

Director

Roland Joffe

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; Social welfare

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A mother with four children, deserted by her husband, fights for her welfare rights. One of the children has Down’s syndrome. The play is set against the Silver Jubilee celebrations, in a time of high...

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Ken Loach at the BBC (2011)

Director

Ken Loach

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1100 minutes), £49.99

This six disc collection spans Ken Loach’s years at the BBC from 1965 - 1977, including films he made for the WEDNESDAY PLAY slot as well as his four-part period drama DAYS OF HOPE. The complete contents...

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Kes (1970)

Director

Ken Loach

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 106 minutes), £14.99

Ken Loach’s landmark film tells the story of Billy Caspar (played by David Bradley) - a working-class teenager growing up in a Yorkshire mining community. Bullied at home and picked on and ridiculed at...

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Days of Hope (4 Parts) (1975 Video)

Director

Ken Loach

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; History

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 95, 100, 80, 135 min.

A dramatised documentary series interpreting British labour history from a socialist angle. After depicting the plight of conscientious objectors in the First World War, and a significant sideways glance at...

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Cathy Come Home (1966)

Director

Ken Loach

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 77 minutes), £15.99

Dramatised documentary on the inadequacy of welfare and housing facilities in Britain. Through a variety of circumstances a young family in 1960s’ London becomes a ‘problem’ family - Cathy’s husband...

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Sun in Splendour, The (1960 Television)

Series

Age of Kings, An

Director

Michael Hayes

Producer

Peter Dews

Episode thirteen in a fifteen-part televised series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies), effectively presenting a chronological history of British...

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Rabble from Kent, The (1960 Television)

Series

Age of Kings, An

Director

Michael Hayes

Producer

Peter Dews

Eleventh episode in a fifteen-part televised series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies), effectively presenting a chronological history of British...

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