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In this documentary Michael Caine recounts his personal experiences of the 1960s in London: "For the first time in history the young working class stood up for ourselves and said, we’re here, this is our...
Janet has just been appointed as shadow health minister, the crowning achievement of her political career. She and her husband Bill plan to celebrate this with a few close friends. As the guests arrive at...
Using footage from both national and regional archives, director Paul Wright explores our changing relationship with the land we live in. The film creates a mosaic of contrasting images, sounds and moods,...
A report of gunshots prompts the Detroit Police to search the Algiers Motel. A group of young people staying there are forcefully and viciously interrogated by the riot task force. By the end of the night,...
Director Christopher Nolan’s fictionalised account of the battle and mass evacuation of over 300,000 Allied troops from the French beaches of Dunkirk at the start of World War II. The story unfolds on...
We know a great deal about media gadgetry in retrospect, but much less about how it was perceived and experienced by early users. Historians at the end of the 19th century have traditionally paid little...
Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912-2012 is an award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the...
Films have always used special effects. This short video offers a compilation of clips showing some famous tricks in the following titles: -Safety Last! (1923) -Modern Times (1936) -Ella Cinders (1926)...
Homer’s Iliad, the earliest Greek poem, narrates the archetypal war between ‘Europeans’ and ‘Asiatics’ divided by the Hellespont. Looking at Wolfgang Peterson’s blockbuster Troy (2004), the...
The heroine of Charles Gounod’s French opera Sapho (1851) sings her last aria O My Immortal Lyre on a Greek cliff before plunging to her death. Sappho, the most famous poet of the ‘Lyric Age’ of...
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