It's hard to overstate the importance of coal mining to the British way of life. Until the late twentieth century, it was our primary energy source, both industrially and domestically. In the 1920s, 1 ...

The small but memorable body of British coal-mining feature films The number of British feature films revolving around miners is comparatively few in number compared with, say, those highlighting the ...

This Topical Budget newsreel looks at the work of a detachment of British nurses in Serbia towards the end of 1915. The opening title refers to a "heroic band of Englishwomen" and the design of their ...

Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Athol, is appointed parliamentary secretary to the Board of Education in the Conservative government. This newsreel item gives an extremely brief portrait of ...

In the years between the two World Wars, a number of films emerged in Britain as alternatives to mainstream commercial filmmaking. These were supported by the appearance of specialist exhibition ...

Regular programmes made specifically for children began in Britain when the television service resumed after WWII. 1946 saw the launch of For the Children and its simple puppet programmes aimed at the ...

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 ...

Films never quite corralled the wayward, lankily raffish persona of Robert Stephens, though there are several remarkable performances that leave one wishing there were more. Trained at the Northern ...

British agents in WWII Crete hatch a daring and ambitious plan to capture the Commander of the island's occupying German forces.

A newly resurrected female vampire and her undead family prey on the staff and pupils of an Austrian finishing school. The trilogy also introduced a far more explicit approach to the sexual nature of ...

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 ...

Cecil Antonio Richardson was born on 5 June 1928 in Shipley, Yorkshire, where his family owned a chemist's shop. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, and his imaginative staging of student plays ...