Best remembered for her role as long-suffering Wendy McKim in Genevieve (d. Henry Cornelius, 1953) - the quintessential English rose who takes second place in her husband's affections to his vintage ...

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 ...

The creators of Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, the Clangers and Bagpuss ...

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 ...

Cast: Colman King (a man of Aran); Maggie Dirrane (his wife); Michael Dillane (their son); Pat Mullen (member of shark hunting crew); Patch Ruadh (member of shark hunting crew) Many writers have ...

Cast: Tommy Trinder (Tommy Hoskins); Constance Cummings (Anne Stanford); Clifford Evans (Fred Garrick); Robert Morley (the mayor); Gordon Jackson ('Jock' Alastair) Here, the focus is on the ...

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

Sex comedies, sitcom spin-offs... and the rise of a truly independent cinema Besides the sex comedy, the other genre indelibly associated with 1970s British cinema was the television spin-off, based ...

Free Cinema is now acknowledged as a highly influential moment in British cinema history, which not only re-invigorated British documentary in the 1950s but also served as a precursor to the British ...

Six fiercely robust and subversive clowns, the Crazy Gang comprised three comedy double acts (Nervo and Knox, Flanagan and Allen, Naughton and Gold) originally brought together for stage shows at the ...

While Mitchell and Kenyon's Buxton Skyline (1901) demonstrates an appreciation of that town's architectural outline, this film takes the opposite approach, reveling in the 'thrilling scenes' of the ...

To look separately at the role of women in the fields of film, video and television in Britain is to recognise that the experiences of women in these areas are somehow different to those of men. The ...