Movies: Samaritan Films

The life of an old man, John Cartner Ronson, living alone in a huge block of flats in London since his wife died nine years earlier....

Birthright, which presents the work of the Family Planning Association, is a valuable record of the organisation of contraception and fertility services before the introduction of the contraceptive pill. But, more than this, in its filmmaking style i...

A documentary feature that attempts to approach the meaning of Francis Bacon's vision of the human predicament, without using words, just solely through it's imaginative and emotional effect....

A documentary feature offering a general introduction to the work of the painter J.M.W. Turner....

A documentary study of a series of works by Welsh painter, Ceri Richards, inspired by the 1910 piano prelude, La Cathédrale Engloutie, by French impressionist composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918)...

David Thompson’s wordless film from 1963 presents an unsettling montage of images from Bacon’s major mid-period works....