Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

The first programme looks at the cinematic birth of a new working-class hero in the north of England. John Schlesinger, Keith Waterhouse and Willis Ha...

As the 60s progressed, British cinema turned its attentions away from the class struggles of northern realist films and focused on the glamour of the...

The ebullience of "swinging" London gave way as the 60s progressed to a mood of questioning, and uneasy portents of revolution could be seen in the fi...

The film-making boom of the 60s drew a new breed of foreign directors to London, all with their own vision of the city. Polanski shot Repulsion in Sou...

Concluding the series, Michael Caine contrasts the downbeat spy he created in The Ipcress File with the fantasy world of James Bond; John Osborne reca...