Browsing: 1970s
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Behind the Rent Strike
(1979)
Broomfield's graduation project from the National Film and
Television School, the film is about the rent strike in Kirkby New
Town in 1973, when 3000 residents protested against the Housing
Finance...
Bowes Line
(1975)
Built in the 1820s by George Stephenson, the Bowes Railway linked Kibblesworth Colliery with Jarrow Staithes. The full sets of coal wagons were hauled up the steep hills until they reached Springwell,...
Edvard Munch
(1974)
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established
himself as northern Europe's most maligned and controversial artist
roughly between the years 1884 and 1894. This film is an intense...
Family, The
(1974)
Credited as the genesis of ‘fly-on-the-wall' documentary on UK television (and also as the forerunner of reality TV) this 12-part series was modelled on the US series An American Family and focused on...
Gale Is Dead
(1970)
Gale is a victim of an overdose at nineteen, fatherless, rejected
by her mother, shunted about from school to school, to correctional
institutions and, finally, to prison. Filmed in and near London
...
Gale Is Dead
(1970)
This documentary follows the life of a young drug addict who did
not belong at school, corerectional institutions nor jail.
Fatherless and despised by her mother, the documentary shows the
harsh re...
Glassworks
(1977)
The hand-drawing of glass capillary tubes was a craft which had almost disappeared through mechanisation, but the delicate process was still practised at Lemington, where, through t...
High Row
(1974)
In Cumbria near Alston, a small drift mine was licensed from the Coal Board and worked by seven men, who had given up a variety of better paid jobs in exchange for a more independen...
I was a Soldier
(1970)
For this - one of the first films to deal with the experiences of
Vietnam vets returning home - Grigsby travelled to smalltown Texas,
far from the liberal coastal areas where the anti-war
demonstra...
Juvenile Liaison
(1975)
An examination of a police juvenile liaison unit in Blackburn,
which was banned by its funders, the BFI, following pressure from
the police. Members of the BFI Production Board resigned as a
result...
Last Shift
(1976)
Adamsez, the well known bathroom ware manufacturers, went out of business in 1975. One of the casualties of the closure was a small self-contained operation housed in an ancient col...
Launch
(1974)
The gradual emergence of a ship at the end of the street and its sudden subsequent disappearance was part of the annual cycle in Wallsend. To the unsuspecting visitor, the first encounter with a ship ...
Laurie
(1978)
I've always had that desire to do something big, you know, in a funny kind of way ... I'm a manual worker really. I like working with me hands, and sculpturing is the essence of wor...
Life Apart, A
(1973)
A film about deep-sea fishermen trawling in Icelandic waters. Often
compared to Grierson's Drifters in its lyrical tone and
preoccupation with the terrible might of nature, this film has a
clear po...
Lillian Hellman
(1979)
Biography of the American playwright for the BBC's Omnibus strand.
Lotte Lenya: Omnibus
(1979)
Biography of the actress and singer, a woman best known for her collaborations with Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Produced for the BBC's Omnibus strand.
Mai
(1974)
Mai is affectionate film portrait of an irrepressible eccentric who makes you question the sanity of conformity. A lapsed Catholic and eventually a committed Anarchist, Mai combined her contradictions...
Man Ray
(1972)
Documentary about the artist for BBC Review.
Marriage Guidance
(1977)
An intimately shot film about couples undergoing marriage guidance
therapy.
My Way
(1979)
Arena examines the appeal and staying power of the phenomenally popular anthem to individualism, My Way. Originally written in French in 1967, the song was adapted by Paul Anka for Frank Sinatra one r...
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