There was certain inevitability that Sydney Tafler would be found playing the title role in Wide Boy (d. Ken Hughes, 1952). In British films of the late 1940s, 50s and 60s, Tafler was most likely to ...

How a few graphic horror films led to the introduction of video censorship Many of these videos were identical to the cinema versions approved (often after cuts) by the British Board of Film Censors, ...

Low, Rachael, The History of the British Film, 1918-1929 (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1971) Low, Rachael, The History of the British Film, 1929-1939 (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1985) ...

Better than any other genre, social realism has shown us to ourselves, pushing the boundaries in the effort to put the experiences of real Britons on the screen, and shaping our ideas of what British ...

Featuring: Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, George Lansbury, David Low, George Bernard Shaw, G.K. Chesterton, H.G. Wells, J.B. Priestley and many others. The most ambitious film yet attempted by the ...

When a London crime syndicate loses its spoils to three Australian crooks impersonating police officers, its members decide to co-operate with the police in an attempt to catch the frauds. The set-up ...

John Betjeman travels from King's Lynn to Hunstanton and discusses the special pleasures of a trip along a small branch line. Along the way, Betjeman enthuses both about the pleasures of the journey ...

A decade of radical change - not least for British cinema ...

The 1960s witnessed a number of events that helped change the face of the industrialised world. These included deepening East/West tensions, an explosion in international travel, the growth of ...

A young boy dreams that his snowman comes to life.

The heroic bas-relief and the stirring score behind the opening titles leave us in no doubt that this is a film about heroism, a propagandist documentary using real firemen that doesn't pull its ...