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

Films never quite corralled the wayward, lankily raffish persona of Robert Stephens, though there are several remarkable performances that leave one wishing there were more. Trained at the Northern ...

Arguably the 1960s saw the best of Coronation Street, with terrific characters, snappy dialogue and plots mirroring real working-class life. In a tradition it was to continue, it was dominated by ...

British soldiers, held at a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Malaya in 1943, are ordered to bridge the Kwai river for the Burma-Siam railway. It is a film of two halves. The first concerns Nicholson's ...

Prolific independent producers of over 140 second features and six television series, Edward J.Danziger (1909-1999) and Harry Danziger (c.1920-), mainly under the banner of Danziger Photoplays, ...

Cast: Charles Laughton (Henry VIII); Robert Donat (Thomas Culpeper); Binnie Barnes (Katherine Howard); Elsa Lanchester (Anne of Cleves); Merle Oberon (Anne Boleyn) ...

Twin brothers, John Edward and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting, born at Bray, Buckinghamshire, on 21 December 1913, constitute one of those producer-director teams responsible for so much notable British ...

Arguably the most genuinely glamorous, and one of the most intelligent, of all British stars, Julie Christie brought a gust of new, sensual life into British cinema when she swung insouciantly down a ...

Better than any other genre, social realism has shown us to ourselves, pushing the boundaries in the effort to put the experiences of real Britons on the screen, and shaping our ideas of what British ...

Following a mysterious white rabbit, Alice falls down a hole in the ground and finds herself in a strange topsy-turvy universe populated by wondrous creatures. Miller digs deep into the roots of ...

A reconstruction of two First World War naval battles from 1914. The Battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands is a painstaking reconstruction with necessarily dramatised sections, in which, for ...

It's hard to overstate the importance of coal mining to the British way of life. Until the late twentieth century, it was our primary energy source, both industrially and domestically. In the 1920s, 1 ...