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 ...

As 2012's Dickens bicentenary celebrations continue, we launch an exciting new tour of short films. With the help of expert guides, the films explore the many ways Dickens' work has been adapted for ...

The further back in television history you go, the greater are the gaps in the archival record of transmitted material. This is actually true of most areas of cultural activity - it takes a certain ...

Steven Moffat's work can veer between high farce and deep introspection, often in successive lines of the same script. But his trademark is his meticulous and enterprising use of structure (for ...

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 ...

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This quietly pioneering documentary gives a valuable and absorbing impression of working-class life in the supposedly swinging mid-60s. The wedding of the title is merely the pretext for a study of ...

Blue Black Permanent was Margaret Tait's first and only feature production. Although her abstract animations and densely allusive film poems such as Where I Am Is Here (1964) or On the Mountain (1974) ...

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 ...

James Bond fakes his own death and goes to Japan in disguise to discover who is launching rockets that are destroying Russian and American spaceships. Dahl shrewdly exploits the international tension ...

Factory worker and lad-about-town Arthur Seaton is having an affair with the wife of a workmate. She becomes pregnant and he starts to go out with a younger woman, Doreen. Eventually he decides to ...