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When a schoolboy's day-dream of a fantasy sports day includes events where acts of vandalism and trespass are required, dire consequences ensue. Originally created as an educational film, this ...

A group of boys scramble to retrieve pennies tossed into the shallow water at the foot of Brighton's West Pier. This is one of a tiny number of films known to survive made by the Brighton-based film ...

From Victorian voyeurism to Soho striptease: how a hidden film industry emerged to satisfy the sexual appetites of (male) viewers.

Cinema’s poet of the West, John Ford had countless westerns under his belt before reteaming with regular star John Wayne for this disturbing story of racism, obsession and revenge. Intending to kill ...

Hacking coughs punctuate the soundtrack throughout, making the film’s propaganda purpose clear from the start. We follow a group of children trying to find out why the various adults in their lives ...

Is this Britain's oldest erotic film? Modern viewers might question how genuinely erotic it is, But it certainly pushes the boundaries of what was permissible in 1896 - and there's little doubt that ...

The Rank Bush Murphy company in Ernesettle began making colour TV sets in 1949 with a 220 to 2500 increase in its workforce. By 1968 the company expanded again and in 1973 a second factory was opened ...

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Bonzo the Dog, the adorable cartoon star of the 1920s was very fond of a sausage or two. But here his bursting belly inspires fevered dreams in which his dinner bites back… Though slowly paced to ...

In this major season we spotlight Japanese filmmakers who have inspired admiration and fascination around the world ...

One of Waters’ most notorious films is Pink Flamingos (1972), a film which legendary critic Roger Ebert famously offered zero stars. With scenes involving chicken sex, a singing orifice and the ...