British Documentary

Engine on the Shed (LMS-London, Midland and Scottish Railway: 1936) (youtube)

Harry Watt: Night Mail (1936) (youtube), London Can Take It! (1940)

Humphrey Jennings: London Can Take It! (1940), Listen to Britain (1942), Fires Were Started (1943)

Bill Douglas Trilogy: My Childhood (1972), My Ain Folk (1973), My Way Home (1978)

Patrick Keiller: London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997)

London Orbital (Iain Sinclair, Chris Petit: 2002)


Land Of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950 (DVD review)
Shadows Of Progress: Documentary Film In Post-war Britain 1951 - 1977 (DVD & film review)

British Movies

Brighton Rock (John Boulting: 1947)

Tiger Bay (J. Lee Thompson: 1959)

Bronco Bullfrog (Barney Platts-Mills: 1971)

Sleuth (Mankiewicz: 1972)

"[...] Implicit in this attitude is a belief in freedom, in the importance of people and the significance of the everyday."

"Free Cinema" Manifesto (1956)




"[working-class art] It starts from the assumption that human life is fascinating in itself."

Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life (1957).




"And if you have five seconds to spare
Then I'll tell you the story of my life..."

The Smiths (Morrissey), Half a Person (1987)

Free Cinema

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tours/mcdowell/tourmcdowell.html

http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/freecinema/

Nice Time (Alain Tanner, Claude Goretta: 1957) youtube

Ealing Comedies

* Hue and Cry (1947)
* Another Shore (1948)
* Passport to Pimlico (1949)
* Whisky Galore! (1949)
* Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
* A Run for Your Money (1949)
* The Magnet (1950)
* The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
* The Man in the White Suit (1951)
* The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
* Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
* The Love Lottery (1954)
* The Maggie (1954)
* The Ladykillers (1955)
* Who Done It? (1956)
* Barnacle Bill (1957)

British New Wave

* Room at the Top (1959)
* Look Back in Anger (John Osborne: 1956, Tony Richardson: 1959)
* Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Alan Sillitoe: 1958, Karel Reisz: 1960)
* Hell Is a City (1960)
* The Entertainer (John Osborne: 1957, Tony Richardson: 1960)
* A Taste of Honey (Shelagh Delaney: 1958, Tony Richardson: 1961)
* A Kind of Loving (John Schlesinger: 1962)
* The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Alan Sillitoe: 1959, Tony Richardson: 1962)
* Billy Liar (John Schlesinger: 1963)
* This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson: 1963)
* Tom Jones (1963)
* A Hard Day's Night (1964)
* The Knack …and How to Get It (1965)
* Kes (Ken Loach: 1969)

Kitchen sink realism

* Look Back in Anger (John Osborne: 1956, Tony Richardson: 1959)
* Room at the Top (1959)
* Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Alan Sillitoe: 1958, Karel Reisz: 1960)
* A Taste of Honey (Shelagh Delaney: 1958, Tony Richardson: 1961)
* A Kind of Loving (John Schlesinger: 1962)
* The L-Shaped Room (1962)
* The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Alan Sillitoe: 1959, Tony Richardson: 1962)
* A Place to Go (1963)
* This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson: 1963)
* Billy Liar (1963)
* Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
* The Leather Boys (1964)
* Georgy Girl (1966)
* Poor Cow (Ken Loach: 1967)
* Up The Junction (1968)
* Kes (Ken Loach: 1969)
* Spring and Port Wine (1970)
* That'll Be The Day (1973)