PBS – Britain on Film with Tony Robinson (2021)
English | Documentary | Size: 1.04 GB
Tour through four decades of British history as viewed from the perspective of amateur filmmakers and home-movie enthusiasts. Capturing the quickening pace of social change from the 1930s to the 1960s, this series shows just how radically things would alter during those eventful times. Economic depression, war and technological progress would all impact heavily upon society. Some aspects of everyday life would fade into history, while others remained reassuringly familiar, seemingly impervious to turmoil.
Chapter 1: The 30s on Film
Newsreel of world leaders in the 1930s, as well as footage of everyday life captured by amateur film-makers using the newly available lightweight movie cameras of the time.
Chapter 2: The 40s on Film
Archive footage from the home front during the Second World War, as home movie enthusiasts captured friends, family and neighbours struggling with a conflict that was not only fought on the front line.
Chapter 3: The 50s on Film
Archive footage captured by amateur film-makers in the 1950s, as the nation recovered from war and the economy started to flourish.
Chapter 4: The 60s on Film
Archive footage from the amateur film-makers who used Super-8 cameras and colour film to capture the dynamism that characterised the 1960s.
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