Britain on Film: Black Britain

2017 | 91 minutes | 0.0 ★ (0)

Britain on Film: Black Britain
  • Overview

    Featuring footage spanning from 1901 to 1985, this little-seen footage has been found from all across the UK. This programme allows an exploration into stories of migration, community and also the struggle against inequality, while also providing the opportunity to celebrate black British culture and life on screen. Films in the programme include: Miners Leaving Pendlebury Colliery (1901), Hull Fair (1902), For the Wounded (1915), From Trinidad to Serve the Empire (1916), Hello! West Indies (1943), Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11 (1949), To the Four Corners (1957), Black Special Constable (1964), Black Police Officers (1966), Cold Railway Workers (1964), Nigerian Wedding in Cornwall (1964), Coloured School Leavers (1965), London Line No. 373 (1971), African Student Families (1975), Liverpool 8 (1972), Blood Ah Go Run (1982), The Jah People (1981) and Grove Carnival (1981)

  • Release Date

    01 April 2017

  • DirectingMenelik Shabazz
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

  • Stars

Videos

User Reviews

See more

More Like This

Think of England

Think of England

Shown as part of the BBC's Modern Times series. Think of England shows Parr talking to the many people he encountered in the summer of 1999. He...

See more
North Korea; Off-Piste

North Korea; Off-Piste

Having been granted special permission to film inside one of the most secretive countries in the world, Britain's fastest snowboarder sets off to...

See more
Why Do They Hate Us?

Why Do They Hate Us?

Britain's Favourite Foods - Are They Good for You?

Britain's Favourite Foods - Are They Good for You?

Professor Alice Roberts discovers which are Britain's most popular fresh foods and uses the latest science to uncover the surprising health...

See more
Pugin: God's Own Architect

Pugin: God's Own Architect

Augustus Northmore Welby Pugin is far from being a household name, yet he designed the iconic clock tower of Big Ben as well as much of the Palace...

See more
Attack: The Battle for New Britain

Attack: The Battle for New Britain

War - Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the...

See more
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire

At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the...

See more
Imperial Sunset

Imperial Sunset

This short satirical film, created entirely from archival footage, is about the British Empire—on which the sun never sets. The majority of the...

See more
Bats, Balls and Bradford Girls

Bats, Balls and Bradford Girls

This BBC Three film follows the first all Asian girls’ cricket team over the summer holidays as they train for their last ever tournament together....

See more
The Lost World of the Seventies

The Lost World of the Seventies

Michael Cockerell sheds new light on the tragi-comedy of the 1970s by focusing on some of its most controversial characters. With fresh filming and...

See more
Britain Through a Lens - The Documentary Film Mob

Britain Through a Lens - The Documentary Film Mob

Dark Water: The Murder of Shani Warren

Dark Water: The Murder of Shani Warren

Twenty-six-year-old Shani Warren was found drowned in Taplow Lake, Buckinghamshire, with her hands tied and feet bound together in 1987. Revealing...

See more
The Black List: Volume Three

The Black List: Volume Three

Documentary film interviews leading African Americans on race, identity, and achievement.

See more
The Intruder: He's Watching You From Within

The Intruder: He's Watching You From Within

In the blistering hot summer of 1984, a sadistic predator is terrorising rural Britain. This is the story of the desperate police manhunt for The...

See more
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn

Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn

The 30-year legacy of the murder of black teenager Yusuf Hawkins by a group of young white men in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, as his family and friends...

See more
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape

Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape

A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.

See more
People In A Film

People In A Film

Chronicles the musical career of British post-punk art rockers Wire.

See more
Britain's Greatest Invention

Britain's Greatest Invention

BBC Two takes us inside the world's biggest invention time capsule - the Science Museum vaults - and asks the nation to vote for Britain's Greatest...

See more
OJ: Trial of the Century

OJ: Trial of the Century

OJ: TRIAL OF THE CENTURY, premiered on June 12, 2014 and it chronicles the twists and turns of the OJ Simpson murder trial and allows viewers to...

See more
Poor Kids

Poor Kids

3.5 million children are growing up in poverty in the UK. It’s one of the worst rates in the industrialised world and successive governments...

See more