Set up in 1946 as the peacetime equivalent of the Ministry of Information (MOI), the Central Office of Information (COI) was formed to ensure that the public were "adequately informed about the many ...

"Free Cinema is dead. Long live Free Cinema." So ended the programme note accompanying the final Free Cinema programme of documentary films, screened at the BFI's National Film Theatre on London's ...

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 ...