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Jul 2, 2018 · Hackney 1960s-80s. Between the 1960s and 1980s, Hackney was a world of its own. Nobody came in from outside the borough for fear of the actual violence that had to be navigated daily, even by those who lived there. Hoxton was quite a poor place in the seventies, with little money for anything other than the essentials.
London Screen Archives includes a selection of films from Hackney Archives (search ‘Hackney’). Some films are available to view online, but a larger selection can be accessed onsite in the...
Aug 17, 2020 · A lot has changed around the Kingshold Estate over the last 30 years…. So much in life is about property. So get this: when adjusted for inflation, in 1995 the average price of a home in Hackney was £102,557. It’s now £479,453. In 1995, the median income in London was £19,000. In 2012-13, the median income in London was £24,600.
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Public information films tended to come in two flavours back in the Seventies: kooky animations where everything is brown; and absolutely terrifying art films. This is the latter. It’s about the dangers of running around and having a laugh on farms, which was apparently one of the main dangers facing kids in the Seventies, and is narrated by a boy ...
Within sports documentary there’s a rich seam of films about fundamentally hopeless teams who keep on plugging away at their (badly) chosen game. Another Bloody Sunday is about the fans of Doncaster’s rugby league team, and when we meet them they’ve just been entered into the Guinness Book of Records for most games without a win: 40. With four game...
The stratospheric career, staggering talent and sad end of Whitney Houston is laid out plainly in Nick Broomfield’s film, which gathers together her collaborators and friends to riddle out the source of her musical gifts, how she got to the top, and how she came to be dead at 48 in a Beverly Hills hotel bathroom. If you didn’t know her story before...
Part Golden Age Hollywood celebration, part wintry peek behind the curtain, Stan & Ollie follows Laurel and Hardy's lacklustre 1953 tour of Britain. Once the biggest box office draw in the world, the pair now find themselves judging beauty pageants in Worthing. The strain of the tour opens up old wounds, but also reminds the pair of exactly why the...
A fading screen icon meets a bright young thing and helps her on her way to fame and glory, but can't save himself from tumbling further into obscurity. It might not be a tale quite as old as time, but it's a Hollywood tale nearly as old as Hollywood itself. The first of the four A Star is Borns to be birthed set the template for remakes in 1954, 1...
Mary Henry should be dead. She survived plunging into a ravine in a car after a drag race, but she has no idea how. Something's changed, though. She moves to a new city but she's followed and overtaken by something she can't understand, and an empty funhouse keeps calling her toward it. The scares come from director Herk Harvey's jarring, clanging ...
Charlie Chaplin's first masterpiece has just turned 100 years old, and a century's distance hasn't dulled its brilliance. A mother abandons her child in a rich man's car, but the wee mite ends up being raised by the Tramp. They haven't got a lot, but they do have two things: love, and a pretty sweet little racket where the kid breaks windows and th...
Unlikely as it sounds, the General Post Office was home to a lot of the most exciting experimental British films of the Thirties. One of the BFI Player's free selections is Night Mail, a huge landmark in the history of documentaries, which follows the postal train taking letters and parcels from Euston to the Scottish Highlands. What begins as a ps...
Even if you're not bothered about cricket, don't worry: while this doc tells the story of how England bounced back from embarrassment in 2010 to become the world's best Test team in 2012, it's not just about cricket. It's about what happens in your head when the tiniest fraction of a movement is the difference between being indispensable and being ...
Edward Earl Johnson has been found guilty of rape and murder, and has been sentenced to death at Mississippi State Penitentiary. He protests that his confession was made under duress, but the state won't listen. This BBC documentary follows the last two weeks of Johnson's life, and is as eloquent an argument against capital punishment and the justi...
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Watch archive collections. The BFI archive contains nearly a million films, TV programmes and clips of historical footage. Thousands of these titles have been converted to digital format so you can stream them instantly and for free, wherever you are. Watch now through BFI Player or on our YouTube channel.
1967: The Birth of the Hackney Society – John Finn 16 1968: The Conservatives take Power – Chris Sills 20 1969: The Completion of Trowbridge Estate: council housing in Hackney – Michael Passmore 24 1970: It started with a Bookshop: the founding of Centerprise – Ken Worpole 28
