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, ...

Throughout its long history, drama documentary has been one of film and television's most popular, but also most controversial, forms. Film and programme makers are attracted to its combination of the ...

A series of seven short public information films designed to be shown on television if a nuclear attack seemed likely. Designed to accompany the Civil Defence handbook, each film in the series Advice ...

The inhabitants of a London street discover buried treasure and documents proving they are really citizens of Burgundy. When the government tries to claim the treasure for the Crown, the Burgundians ...

Mavis dreams of owning her own home, and the dream seems finally within reach. But her husband Arthur has dreams of his own ...

In 1955, the British film industry faced a new threat. Television had experienced a boom year in 1953 and was welcoming a new independent channel that, free from many of the restrictions of public ...

There was so much more to Ealing Studios than its famous comedies. But there's one category of Ealing films that's really obscure. The 30-odd documentaries and propaganda shorts released by the studio ...

Dickens was always adapted. From the start of his brilliant career his works were pirated for the stage - often, to his annoyance, before his serial publications were even finished. The Inimitable ...

In the year 2005, Mitchell and Kenyon, a late Victorian and Edwardian film company, went from being a footnote in the received film history of cinema scholars to becoming a virtual household name. The ...

Some cinemas were forced to close during World War One when key staff were called up for war service. Others served a useful function in conveying war news, entertaining troops stationed nearby, and ...

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 ...

Family life with Andy, a professional chef who buys a decrepit hamburger van, his wife Wendy, a part-time waitress, and their daughters Nicola, sex and Marx-obsessed and a secret bullimic, and Natalie ...