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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

During WWI, the crew of a British supply ship overpower their German U-boat captors. But when one German crewmember sabotages the compass, they find themselves in a strange prehistoric land. The ...

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

Despite the fluctuating reputation of British cinema in subsequent decades, there is little doubt that between 1895 and 1905 the best British pioneers fully deserve to be ranked alongside their ...

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 ...

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 ...

The author's original serials find their natural home on the small screen Over the years the classic serial has come in for some criticism for its cultural conservatism (recycling the same set of ...

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 ...

The inhabitants of the remote island of Hirta in the Hebrides are split on whether or not to abandon their homes. Having made two dozen low budget pot-boilers over the preceding five years, Michael ...

An American naval officer's honeymoon is thwarted by the arrival of his first wife, who claims that their American divorce is not valid in England. April saw four weeks of filming begin at Nettlefold ...