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Documentary about the emergence of the ‘teenager’ at the turn of the 20th century. With the end of child labour a new transitionary stage between childhood and adulthood emerged. During these teenage...
In the early 1960s, the BBC, in partnership with the Imperial War Museum, conducted a series of interviews with First World War veterans, for the television series THE GREAT WAR. Most of these interviews...
To coincide with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the BFI has put together a collection of films from the the BFI National Archive on a range of royalty-related subjects, beginning as far back as 1896. The...
China was only just opening up to the west when this Sydney Australia TV crew were given access, uprecedented to foreigners until that date, to document, film and photograph the entire epic 8,000 mile length...
Four black and white documentaries by John Krish, portraying life in post-war Britain. THE ELEPHANT WILL NEVER FORGET (1953), a poetic farewell to London’s trams; THEY TOOK US TO THE SEA (1961), a poignant...
THE ANGER (made in 1963) taps into topics from the 1950s and the early 1960s, such as racism, the Middle East, Cuba, Stalinism, the Atomic bomb, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. The directors of the film -...
Maurice Elvey’s silent biopic maps out the life of British Prime Minister Lloyd George from childhood to the end of the Great War, using actors and hundreds of extras in studio and location scenes. In 1918...
All 35 episodes of the landmark FACE TO FACE series hosted by former politician John Freeman, broadcast between 1959-1962. Featuring guests from all backgrounds, the interview technique was insightful,...
An epic account of the events that have shaped our lives since the end of the Second World War. Using archive and stills, dynamic sequences of Andrew Marr’s journey across Britain, anecdote and analysis,...
Offering powerful, poignant and often surprising insights into the pivotal years of the1930s, this BBC4 documentary series brings to viewers a global treasure trove of rare colour films - many of which have...
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