With her composed elegance and the air of the Head Girl from the Upper 6th, Celia Imrie has crossed seamlessly from dramatic roles to the comedic world of Victoria Wood. Born in Guildford on 15 July ...

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 ...

London/Britain Can Take It! is the most renowned cinematic representation of the resilient heroism of ordinary Londoners during the early days of the Blitz. Structurally, the film adheres to an ...

Cathy and Reg fall on hard times when Reg is injured at work. They begin a slide into poverty, debt and homelessness, until the authorities forcibly take Cathy's children away. The play follows young ...

The bizarre adventures of a frustrated actor, who walks off a tired family sitcom into a world of talking dogs, and dancing advertisements. Unusually, the series was shot on film, marking it out from ...

Nigel Kneale's adaptation of George Orwell's most celebrated novel was one of the most controversial television programmes of its time, and marks a key transitional moment in the development of ...

The remarkably prolific television career of Brian Clemens is almost the history of the action-adventure genre of British television. His scripts have enlivened almost every action-drama series seen ...

Early cinema held an instant fascination with the train, as is evident from the numerous actualities of engines entering and leaving stations, including the famous Lumière brothers film L'Arrivée d'un ...

A young woman is framed for fraud, and given a prison sentence. The upbeat story of Jean Raymond, the upper-middle-class girl gone to the bad because of her gambling habit, but rescued by the love of ...

Cast: Cedric Hardwicke (Ralph Nickleby); Derek Bond (Nicholas Nickleby); Sally Ann Howes (Kate Nickleby); Bernard Miles (Newman Noggs); Sybil Thorndike (Mrs. Squeers) ...

How a small studio brought new blood to the British horror film ...

A British drainage engineer goes to the American West and cleans up Stodge City, ridding it of the evil Rumpo Kid.