A young boy dreams that his snowman comes to life.

A decade of radical change - not least for British cinema ...

Notorious practical joker Henry Russell dies, and his will leaves £50,000 to each of four relatives - on condition that they carry out various humiliating tasks beforehand. And, as with recent ...

An ambitious young working-class man moves to the wealthy town of Warnley to work for the council. He pursues the daughter of the local industrialist, but also falls in love with a married French ...

Like most film genres, the spy film developed from a literary tradition. This can be dated to the first of the future war stories, G.T. Chesney's 'The Battle of Dorking' (1871), describing a surprise ...

Cast: Anton Walbrook (Boris Lermontov); Marius Goring (Julian Craster); Moira Shearer (Victoria Page); Leonide Massine (Grischa Ljubov); Robert Helpmann (Ivan Boleslawsky) ...

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 ...

Intended for broadcast in 1965, writer / director Peter Watkins' nuclear war drama was withheld by the BBC - possibly as a result of political pressure - and remained unshown for nearly twenty years, ...

Before the 1950s, when the 'Windrush generation' of immigrants from the West Indies began to make its presence felt, race was a relatively little-used subject for British comedians. Even after that, ...

India, 1905. A British soldier is assigned to protect a 6-year-old Maharaja's son and his American governess from Muslim rebels.

Bhattacharyya, Gargi and John Gabriel, 'Gurinder Chadha and The Apna Generation', Third Text (Summer 1994), pp. 55-63. National Asian American Telecommunications ...

12 hours in the life of Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market. A very rough treatment was written, but most of the film was improvised on the spot. The material shot over 4 weeks - either through ...