100 British Documentaries

Patrick Russell

• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781844571949
• eBook ISBN: 9781838713980
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film History & Criticism

Ever since John Grierson popularized the term 'documentary, ' British non-fiction film has been renowned, sometimes reviled, but seldom properly appreciated. '100 British Documentaries 'provides a uniquely accessible, occasionally provocative introduction to a rich and surprisingly varied tradition by considering 100 examples taken from across a century's worth of output. The 100 films range from the Victorian period to the present day. Alongside such classics as 'Night Mail 'and 'Touching the Void 'are documentaries that illustrate the many uses to which it has been put from pro-gram-filler to political propaganda to classroom teaching aid and the many styles and viewpoints it has embraced. While the focus is on the documentary 'film, ' several television productions are included, indicating how the genre has developed on the small screen.

Index

Page numbers in bold denote the principal entry for a selected film; those in italic denote illustrations; n = endnote

24 Hours (2000) here–here, here

1930s, documentary movement here–here, here, here–here, here

criticisms here, here

fusion of styles here–here

influence on later approaches here–here

1950s, trends in documentary here–here

1960s, mood/culture here–here, here–here, here, here

‘access’ documentary here

Acres, Birt here–here, here

activist cinema here, here–here

role in activist process here

see also politically committed film; protest

actors, use of here, here–here, here

‘actuality’ here–here, here–here

Addinsell, Richard here

Adlam, John here

advertising here–here

Airlie, Jimmy here–here

Akomfrah, John here

Al-Qaeda here–here

alcohol

consumption here–here

production/promotion here–here

Aldermaston here–here, here

Alexander, Donald here–here, here, here, here

Alexandra Palace here–here

Alice in Wonderland (1903) here

Almond, Paul here, here

‘amateur’ film-making here–here

Amber here

The American Family (1973) here

Analysis of Exercise (1936) here

The Ancestry of Science here

Anderson, Lindsay here–here, here, here, here, here

Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985) here

Anne, Princess here

Anstey, Edgar here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Antarctica here–here

Any Man’s Kingdom (1956) here–here, here–he...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 24 Hours, 2000
• Any Man’s Kingdom, Tony Thompson, 1956
• Artists Must Live, John Read, 1953
• At Work in Manchester and Milan (Neighbours), Richard Guinea, Manfred Voss, Enrico Platter, 1974
• Baby’s Toilet, 1905
• The Battle of the Somme, 1916
• Beauty, Bonny, Daisy, Violet, Grace and Geoffrey Morton, Frank Cvitanovich, 1974
• The Big Meeting, 1963
• Britain at Bay, 1940
• Children Learning by Experience, Margaret Thomson, 1947
• The Coal Board’s Butchery (The Miners’ Campaign Video Tapes), 1984
• Coal Face, Cavalcanti, 1935
• The Complainers, Dominic Savage, 1997
• The Conquest of Everest, 1953
• Conservative Party Election Broadcast 23/4/79, 1979
• Crowd Bites Wolf, 2000
• A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner, 1910
• Desert Victory, Roy Boulting, 1943
• The Devil Is Coming (The Great War), Tony Essex, 1964
• A Diary for Timothy, Humphrey Jennings, 1946
• Drifters, John Grierson, 1929
• Drinking for England, Brian Hill, 1998
• Education for the Future, Derrick Knight, 1967
• Every Day Except Christmas (Look at Britain), Lindsay Anderson, 1957
• The Face of Britain, Paul Rotha, 1935
• The Family (Week 12), Franc Roddam, Paul Watson, 1974
• Five and Under, Donald Alexander, 1941
• Gallivant, Andrew Kötting, 1996
• The Great Recovery (Britain under National Government), 1934
• Guinness for You, Anthony Short, 1971
• Handsworth Songs, John Akomfrah, 1986
• Health and Clothing, H. W. Bush, 1928
• The Heart of the Angel, Molly Dineen, 1989
• Heroes of the North Sea, A. E. Jones, 1925
• Housing Problems, Edgar Anstey, Arthur Elton, 1935
• I Think They Call Him John, John Krish, 1964
• The Intimacy of Strangers, Eva Weber, 2005
• The Irishmen: An Impression of Exile, Philip Donnellan, 1965
• John, Aged Seventeen Months, for Nine Days in a Residential Nursery, James and Joyce Robertson, 1969
• Johnny Cash in San Quentin, Michael Darlow, 1969
• Johnny Go Home, John Willis, 1975
• Jubilee, Herbert A. Green, R. Green, 1935
• Land of Promise, Paul Rotha, 1946
• Let It Be, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970
• Listen to Britain, Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister, 1942
• Lockerbie – A Night Remembered, Michael Grigsby, 1998
• London, Patrick Keiller, 1994
• London 2012: Make Britain Proud, Darryl Goodrich, 2004
• London’s Contrasts (Wonderful London), Frank Miller, Harry B. Parkinson, 1924
• March to Aldermaston, 1958
• Marion Knight (Citizen 63), John Boorman, 1963
• Market Place (Look at Life), 1959
• McLibel, Franny Armstrong, 1998/2005
• Mining Review 4th Year No. 12, 1951
• Mirror (Video Nation), Gordon Henscher, 1994
• Morning in the Streets, Denis Mitchell, Roy Harris, 1959
• Moslems in Britain – Cardiff, G. Fares, 1961
• The Negro Next Door (This Week), Peter Robinson, 1965
• Neil Kinnock, Hugh Hudson, 1987
• New Year’s Eve (Police), Roger Graef, Charles Stewart, 1982
• Night Mail, Harry Watt, Basil Wright, 1936
• Nightcleaners, Berwick Street Collective, 1975
• O’Connell Bridge, 1897
• Out to Play, Harold Lowenstein, 1936
• Portrait of a School, Vivian Milroy, 1957
• A Portrait of Ga, Margaret Tait, 1952
• The Punk Rock Movie, Don Letts, 1978
• A Queen Is Crowned, Castleton Knight, 1953
• Returning the Serve (Loyalists), Sam Collyns, 1999
• The Rival World, Bert Haanstra, 1955
• Royal Family, Richard Cawston, 1969
• The School, 1978
• Seven Up! (World in Action), Paul Almond, 1964
• The Shadow of Progress, Derek Williams, 1970
• The Shadows in the Cave (The Power of Nightmares), Adam Curtis, 2004
• Snow, Geoffrey Jones, 1963
• The Song of Ceylon, Basil Wright, 1934
• Song of the People, Max Munden, 1945
• South – Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Glorious Epic of the Antarctic, 1919
• S.S. Skirmisher at Liverpool (Mitchell and Kenyon 235), 1901
• Sunday by the Sea, Anthony Simmons, 1953
• Supersocieties (Life in the Undergrowth), Stephen Dunleavy, 2005
• The Sword of the Spirit, Henry Cass, 1942
• Television Comes to London, Dallas Bower, Gerald Cock, 1936
• Time Is, Don Levy, 1964
• Today We Live: A Film of Life in Britain, Ruby Grierson, Ralph Bond, 1937
• Touching the Void, Kevin Macdonald, 2003
• Tracking down Maggie, Nick Broomfield, 1994
• Two Victorian Girls (Yesterday’s Witness), Stephen Peet, 1970
• UCS I, 1971
• The Vanishing Street, Robert Vas, 1962
• View from an Engine Front – Ilfracombe, 1898
• Vox Nova Scientiae, 1936
• A Wedding on Saturday, Norman Swallow, 1964
• Western Approaches, Pat Jackson, 1944
• Westward Ho!, Thorold Dickinson, 1940
• When the Dog Bites, Penny Woolcock, 1988
• Winter (Secrets of Nature), 1923
• Wisdom of the Wild, Mary Field, 1940
• Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour, 1896
• Appendix
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Index
• List of Illustrations
• eCopyright