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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an age in which an increasingly commercially-oriented British television drama has supposedly moved away from the writer-led model that sustained it from the 1950s to the mid-1980s, Jimmy McGovern ...

In the lands of the North, tales are told of how brave and wise King Noggin the Nog ruled benevolently over his people and kept them safe from the evil plans of his wicked uncle, Nogbad the Bad. The ...

A man, irritated by the presence of a photographer, solves his dilemma by swallowing him and his camera whole.

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