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 ...

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

In 1935, the notion that film should be considered an art form, something to be preserved in the same way books and paintings are, was still quite revolutionary. The BFI National Archive was one of ...

A young boy dreams that his snowman comes to life.

When ITV's second franchise round came up in 1967, the Independent Television Authority (ITA) had it all worked out. While the 1964 franchise allocation had seen little new, the latest round was set ...

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 ...

Notorious practical joker Henry Russell dies, and his will leaves £50,000 to each of four relatives - on condition that they carry out various humiliating tasks beforehand. And, as with recent ...

As an actor, John Hurt is drawn to misfit roles, outsiders and mavericks, victims and - occasionally - oppressors, sometimes pathetic (the Elephant Man), sometimes defiant (Emperor Caligula, or the ...

On holiday in Switzerland, Jill and Bob Lawrence become involved in a sinister plot when they witness a murder and their daughter Betty is kidnapped. Back in London, they are too scared to involve the ...

Mavis dreams of owning her own home, and the dream seems finally within reach. But her husband Arthur has dreams of his own ...

In the year 2005, Mitchell and Kenyon, a late Victorian and Edwardian film company, went from being a footnote in the received film history of cinema scholars to becoming a virtual household name. The ...

Bhattacharyya, Gargi and John Gabriel, 'Gurinder Chadha and The Apna Generation', Third Text (Summer 1994), pp. 55-63. National Asian American Telecommunications ...