Secrets and Lies (d. Mike Leigh, 1996) looks at the lives of Black and White Britons and tries to imagine a way in which both can begin to share the same family blood link. Hortense (Marianne ...

Family life with Andy, a professional chef who buys a decrepit hamburger van, his wife Wendy, a part-time waitress, and their daughters Nicola, sex and Marx-obsessed and a secret bullimic, and Natalie ...

A portrait of pop artists Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, and Peter Phillips. If Pop Goes the Easel looks dated to present-day eyes, that's both understandable and unavoidable, but in 1962 ...

Intended for broadcast in 1965, writer / director Peter Watkins' nuclear war drama was withheld by the BBC - possibly as a result of political pressure - and remained unshown for nearly twenty years, ...

Throughout its long history, drama documentary has been one of film and television's most popular, but also most controversial, forms. Film and programme makers are attracted to its combination of the ...

There was so much more to Ealing Studios than its famous comedies. But there's one category of Ealing films that's really obscure. The 30-odd documentaries and propaganda shorts released by the studio ...

A car drives past a policeman and explodes, although he is happily unscathed enough to pick up the pieces afterwards. The absurdity of the treatment means that even when clearly recognisable body ...

RAF pilot Douglas Bader loses both legs after a terrible plane crash. Through determination and strength of character, he overcomes great obstacles to become a World War II flying hero. Bader was an ...

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

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 ...

Unsurprisingly, given his stature as one of the greatest writers in the English language, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) has directly or indirectly inspired a huge number of British films - and an ...

Cast: May Clark (Alice), Cecil M.Hepworth (Frog), Mrs Hepworth (White Rabbit/Queen), Stanley Faithfull, Geoffrey Faithfull (Cards), Blair (Dog) At 800ft, Alice in Wonderland was the longest film yet ...