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18 popular works
David Attenborough on the rise of BBC Two and his journey from Zoo Quest presenter to channel controller.
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David Attenborough Interview (London Line)

Beautiful, bittersweet tale of love, longing and Elvis. Xiao Mei leaves China for marriage in Britain. But her true desire is to find her family.
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Red

  • Kilburn
  • 1995
Part experimental cinema, part advert for the parcel post service, always joyful.
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A Colour Box

  • 1935
Lindsay Anderson's ground-breaking short film about a Margate amusement park, which helped to launch a new documentary movement.
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O Dreamland

  • Margate
  • 1953
A passionate poem about language and cultural identity from Scots poet Len Pennie
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I’m No Havin Children

  • 2021-06-19
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Snowdrift at Bleath Gill

  • Bleathgill
  • 1955
The stirring story of poet Ellis Evans-Hedd Wyn, the Welsh poet posthumously awarded the Eisteddfod chair at Birkenhead in 1917 after failing to return from 1st World War trenches.
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Hedd Wyn

  • Trawsfynydd
  • 1992
One of a series of animated films designed to provide instructions on how to survive a nuclear attack.
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Protect and Survive

  • 1975-10
The flagship of the GPO Film Unit's output and a cornerstone of British documentary, featuring music by Benjamin Britten and the verse of W.H. Auden.
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Night Mail

  • Euston Sta
  • 1936
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The Week Elvis Died

  • 1997
Iconic images by photo-pioneer Eadweard Muybridge come to life in this striking video collage.
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Muybridge Revisited

  • Fulham
  • 1986
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Return to the Edge of the World

  • Shetland Islands
  • 1978
Female punks have fun boozing, smoking and talking in this fascinating film by London lifestyle chronicler Captain Zip.
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Squatparty

  • Putney
  • 1981
Ridley Scott's first film features his younger brother, the late Tony Scott, as a schoolboy playing truant for the day to meander around Hartlepool on his bicycle, lost in his own thoughts.
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Boy and Bicycle

  • Hartlepool
  • 1965
An early classic of Black British cinema about the intriguing social dynamics that arise as a ten shilling note is passed around the black community.
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Ten Bob in Winter

  • Westminster
  • 1963
Terrifying public information film presenting the horrific consequences of playing in or near rivers, ponds and other water hazards.
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The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water

  • 1973
Home safety is child's play if you have the feline guardian angel of the 70s on hand
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Matches

  • 1973
One of the most disturbing public safety films depicts six children being picked off one-by-one by deadly farming machinery.
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Apaches

  • 1977