McLibel is the inside story of the postman and the gardener who took on the McDonald's Corporation. Filmed over three years, the documentary follows Helen Steel and Dave Morris, anonymous campaigners who become unlikely global heroes. Struggling to defend themselves in the longest trial in English history, they face infiltration by spies, secret meetings with corporate executiv...
An excellent documentary made by the BBC features good contributions from cast and crew, focuses on Loach’s method and gives a good sense of how real and meaningful it is for those taking part in the film. The Spanish actors put the film very much into perspective by pointing out that the subject matter tackled by Loach is one that the Spanish themselves have been reluctant to ...
An abandoned tumbledown theater in the Brazilian outback is the initial setting of a film about cinema, with testimonials from filmmakers such as Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant, Jia Zhangke, Karim Ainouz, Ken Loach and Lucrecia Martel.
Directed by Ken Loach and first broadcast as part of the BBC's Split Screen television series. This 1989 short film examines the role of the British government in Northern Ireland, and asks: is it time for them to leave
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me ...
When a pay discrepancy continues without any resolution, glass factory workers turn to their union for support. But when it is not forthcoming, they take things into their own hands.
Dock workers under the threat of redundancy, work day and night in an attempt to keep employed by running the workforce themselves.
Directed by the legendary Ken Loach (Kes, The Wind That Shakes The Barley) and cinematography by the oscar nominated Barry Ackroyd(The Hurt Locker and United 93) It tells the story of theDarlaston West Midlands-based Young Foundry theatre group members Stephen Page, Paul Harper, Jimmy Dunn,Chris Dunn, Caroline White and Roy Stokes who act out a series of scenes reflecting their...
Series of one-off plays made by BBC television which gave breaks a wide range of writers and directors in the late 60s, such as Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, David Mercer, John Hopkins. Famous plays include 'Up the Junction' , 'Cathy Come Home' , 'Stand Up Nigel Barton' , 'Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton', 'On the Eve of Publication' and 'Son of Man'. The series often addressed c...
Play for Today was a series of single dramas broadcast by the BBC between 1970 and 1984. These were years of crisis, a time when the consensus politics of Britain's postwar world had begun to unravel. Industrial relations, education and the health service faced fundamental challenges, the country was struggling with the end of empire, and the personal had become increasingly po...
Greg Davies travels to the small mining town of Hoyland Common near Barnsley to visit locations and meet the people who inspired and who have been inspired by the book "a Kestrel for a Knave" and the film of the novel, "Kes".
