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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, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when...
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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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An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
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Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
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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 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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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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Documentary about the production of a small town weekly newspaper from reporting to printing.
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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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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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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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A despondent young woman travels home to the North of England.
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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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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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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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Lindsay Anderson's early documentary film of a British amusement park, the irony of its manufactured fun on full display.
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Collaborative documentary (credited to a committee rather than to individual filmmakers) detailing the CND march from London to Aldermaston at...
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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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David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.
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