Both these films typify Cinema Action's approach of letting those directly involved express themselves without commentary. They were designed to provide an analysis of struggles, which could encourage ...

The films of Norman J. Warren are as much a window on the fortunes of independent film making in 1960s and 70s Britain as they are an insight into the creative imagination behind some of the country's ...

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

The creation of the National Coal Board (NCB) on 15th July 1946 sowed the seeds for one of Britain's most substantial and long-lasting industrial film units - the NCB Film Unit. Film production in ...

The 1980s began with the bleakest outlook yet seen for British film. Most of the well-heeled film companies such as Rank, EMI and assorted Hollywood majors had either pulled out of British production ...

Complications ensue for two game warden brothers in Africa when the girlfriend of one of them arrives from England. Actually shot in South Africa, the film preceded the country's withdrawal from the ...

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 ...

The creators of Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, the Clangers and Bagpuss ...

There have been relatively few Chinese themes and characters on British cinema screens - certainly by comparison with those from, for example, India - despite a significant Chinese population since ...

Salford, 1971: a proud Pakistani chip shop owner lives with his white wife and seven children in a terraced house. The children rebel against his strict approach and his insistence that they are ...

Sex comedies, sitcom spin-offs... and the rise of a truly independent cinema Besides the sex comedy, the other genre indelibly associated with 1970s British cinema was the television spin-off, based ...