Documentary film — the makers, the works and the movements, from 1922 to now.

Free Cinema

Six programmes at the NFT between 1956 and 1959, Lindsay Anderson's manifesto, and the argument that a documentary could have a point of view.

People sit at outdoor tables beneath the National Film Theatre entrance under a concrete overpass
A Bulletin at the Door, a Movement on the ScreenPhoto: London National Film Theatre · Wikimedia Commons

No film can be too personal.

Free Cinema manifesto, National Film Theatre, 1956

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