There was so much more to Ealing Studios than its famous comedies. But there's one category of Ealing films that's really obscure. The 30-odd documentaries and propaganda shorts released by the studio ...

It's Great To Be Young! has a fair claim to be not only one of Britain's first teenage musicals but also one of the most commercially successful of any musical made in Britain during the 1950s - it ...

Steven Moffat's work can veer between high farce and deep introspection, often in successive lines of the same script. But his trademark is his meticulous and enterprising use of structure (for ...

RAF pilot Douglas Bader loses both legs after a terrible plane crash. Through determination and strength of character, he overcomes great obstacles to become a World War II flying hero. Bader was an ...

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

There was certain inevitability that Sydney Tafler would be found playing the title role in Wide Boy (d. Ken Hughes, 1952). In British films of the late 1940s, 50s and 60s, Tafler was most likely to ...

Cast: May Clark (Alice), Cecil M.Hepworth (Frog), Mrs Hepworth (White Rabbit/Queen), Stanley Faithfull, Geoffrey Faithfull (Cards), Blair (Dog) At 800ft, Alice in Wonderland was the longest film yet ...

The creation of the National Coal Board (NCB) on 15th July 1946 sowed the seeds for one of Britain's most substantial and long-lasting industrial film units - the NCB Film Unit. Film production in ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife... Their cuts produce a faster-paced story, intended to engage contemporary ...

Salford, 1971: a proud Pakistani chip shop owner lives with his white wife and seven children in a terraced house. The children rebel against his strict approach and his insistence that they are ...

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's ...