12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as...

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Blitz

Blitz

In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to...

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Shame

Shame

Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex...

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Widows

Widows

A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt...

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Hunger

Hunger

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win...

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Occupied City

Occupied City

The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic...

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Three Minutes: A Lengthening

Three Minutes: A Lengthening

The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing images of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk...

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The Shadow Scholars

The Shadow Scholars

When Oxford Professor Patricia Kingori travels to Kenya, she uncovers the murky, multi-billion global underworld of essay-writing. Thousands of...

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Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era...

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Deadpan

Deadpan

Deadpan is a four-minute installation film in which McQueen re-stages a death-defying Buster Keaton stunt. The side of a house is filmed toppling...

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Subnormal

Subnormal

The UK schools scandal through the eyes of Black parents, teachers, and activists who banded together to expose the injustice and force the...

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Gravesend

Gravesend

Gravesend uses a documentary approach to focus on the mining of coltan, employed in the manufacture of cell phones, laptops and other high-tech...

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Static

Static

Static was filmed from a helicopter circling around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. It was shot shortly after the monument was fully...

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Caribs' Leap

Caribs' Leap

Caribs’ Leap / Western Deep comprises two complementary films that are shown together as a three-screen, synchronised colour video projection. The...

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Western Deep

Western Deep

An exploration of the sensory experience of the TauTona gold mine in South Africa, showing migrant labourers working in dark, claustrophobic...

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End Credits

End Credits

video, sequence of digitally scanned files, sound video: 12 hours 54 minutes, continuous projection audio: 67 hours 4 minutes 43 seconds

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Untitled Paul Robeson Project

Untitled Paul Robeson Project

A look at the life and work of actor, singer and activist, Paul Robeson.

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Exodus

Exodus

The film documents two men carrying palm trees through the streets of East London. McQueen tracked the men through a bustling Brick Lane market.

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Bear

Bear

Bear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly political work, for many viewers it raises sensitive...

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Grenfell

Grenfell

In December 2017 Steve McQueen made an artwork in response to the fire that took place earlier that year on 14 June at Grenfell Tower in North...

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