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In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and...

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Britannia Hospital

Britannia Hospital

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when...

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This Sporting Life

This Sporting Life

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run...

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O Lucky Man!

O Lucky Man!

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

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The Whales of August

The Whales of August

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

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The Pleasure Garden

The Pleasure Garden

People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills...

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In Celebration

In Celebration

In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents...

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The Old Crowd

The Old Crowd

George and Betty, a middle-class English couple, have just moved into a big Edwardian house in London and are throwing a party to celebrate...

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Wakefield Express

Wakefield Express

Documentary about the production of a small town weekly newspaper from reporting to printing.

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Together

Together

The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London's East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong...

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Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger

Jimmy is a self-loathing and frustrated musician who works at a candy shop. He takes out his rage on his long suffering wife and his business...

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Red, White, and Zero

Red, White, and Zero

Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay...

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The White Bus

The White Bus

A despondent young woman travels home to the North of England.

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Every Day Except Christmas

Every Day Except Christmas

Every Day Except Christmas is a 37-minute documentary film filmed in 1957 at the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market, then located in...

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Omnibus: John Ford, Part One

Omnibus: John Ford, Part One

Documentary about the early career of Hollywood film director John Ford, written and presented by Lindsay Anderson, and first aired on the British...

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Glory! Glory!

Glory! Glory!

A rock singer revives a failing TV ministry, but the cost may be high when she falls for a reporter planning an exposé.

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O Dreamland

O Dreamland

Lindsay Anderson's early documentary film of a British amusement park, the irony of its manufactured fun on full display.

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March to Aldermaston

March to Aldermaston

Collaborative documentary (credited to a committee rather than to individual filmmakers) detailing the CND march from London to Aldermaston at...

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Wham! in China: Foreign Skies

Wham! in China: Foreign Skies

Best known for their radio staples "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Careless Whisper," the seminal 80s pop group Wham! (George Michael and Andrew...

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Home

Home

David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.

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