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A personal view of Covent Garden market from midnight to mid-day, Director Lindsay Anderson’s describes the film as ‘a lyrical documentary’ - an attempt to bring poetry and humanity back into...
Three short documentary films about British working-class life produced by the ‘Free Cinema’ movement. The compilation consists of EVERY DAY EXCEPT CHRISTMAS, WE ARE THE LAMBETH BOYS, and THE SATURDAY...
Featuring contrasting colour film footage of the abandoned site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, alongside black and white archive material, filmed by both the Allied Forces and the Nazis,...
Television documentary series on aerial warfare 1935-1950, broadcast as 15 half-hour programmes, with material selected from nearly 12 million feet of Allied and enemy film footage, emphasising the role of...
Johnnie, now a successful artist, recalls his life in the tenements of the Glasgow slums. In flashback his recalls the events and characters he shared life with in a slum tenement building. The screenplay...
A reconstruction of a disaster at Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery, Ayrshire, in 1950, dramatises the tense events of the rescue of miners trapped underground after a pit shaft was flooded and nine men were...
An unusual official film, made with the co-operation of the people of Edinburgh, with something of the feel of the old German films of the twenties. It captures the bold outlines of the grey-stoned city and...
A drama documentary (1949) about a young gypsy boy who enrols in the training school of the newly nationalised coal industry. The film was shot on location in the Durham mining villages with a...
A compilation of three classic World War 2 documentaries by Humphrey Jennings: THE HEART OF BRITAIN, LISTEN TO BRITAIN and A DIARY FOR TIMOTHY. (See individual titles for synopses.)
A propaganda film made by the Japanese with an Indonesian soundtrack to emphasise Japanese military achievements. The message is that the Japanese army does not act aggressively but only to defend Japan or...
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