London/Britain Can Take It! is the most renowned cinematic representation of the resilient heroism of ordinary Londoners during the early days of the Blitz. Structurally, the film adheres to an ...

Mike Leigh completed his second feature film seventeen years after his stunning debut with Bleak Moments in 1971. In those intervening years he solidified his reputation with innovatory theatre and ...

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 ...

A few months into World War Two, the GPO Film Unit was transferred to the Films Division of the Ministry of Information. Its new name - the Crown Film Unit - reflected its special status as film ...

A child's pictorial alphabet stuck on the letter H and a view of the English countryside.

A married woman shelters her former lover in her London home after he has escaped from prison. Discontented with her dull marriage, she begins to rediscover her former love for him. Very early in the ...

An appeal for support for the National Government.

Throughout the 1970s, Bill Oddie was known as the hairy, cynical, anarchist member of The Goodies (BBC, 1970-80, ITV, 1981-82). Since its demise, the comedian and songwriter has displayed the ...

Throughout the 1960s, Sian Phillips was perhaps best known for being Mrs Peter O'Toole; only their friends Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were as glamorous and famous a showbusiness couple.

James Bond traces the evil Ernst Stavro Blofeld to Switzerland, and while dodging his henchmen on skis he falls in love with the beautiful Tracy.

Even though he saw himself as insecure, fearful of unemployment, shaking when handling props, forgetting his lines, and even refusing to watch his own screen performances, Gordon Jackson, with his ...

For 25 years the multi-faceted comic actor and impressionist Stanley Baxter produced for television a series of spectacular comedy specials reminiscent of Hollywood extravaganzas. His powers of ...