Movies: Digital Works

  • 2022
    Reel Stories: An Oral History of London's Projectionists

    Reel Stories: An Oral History of London's Projectionists (2022)

    Reel Stories: An Oral History of London's Projectionists

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    Documentary charting the experiences of projectionists who work or worked in cinemas in London, exploring the skills and dedication required for this unique role, set against changes in technology, society, and entertainment....

    Reel Stories: An Oral History of London's Projectionists
  • 2023
    Hello Campers!

    Hello Campers! (2023)

    Hello Campers!

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    Oral history project exploring the history of London's holiday campers. From the 1930s to the 1980s London’s workers increasingly visited holiday camps such as Pontins and Butlins, or run by trade unions and other social groups. It became a tradition...

    Hello Campers!
  • 2014
    Young Rebels - The Story of the Southall Youth Movement

    Young Rebels - The Story of the Southall Youth Movement (2014)

    Young Rebels - The Story of the Southall Youth Movement

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    A documentary film made by local young people looking at the history of their community from the 1960s to the 1980s with particular interest in the murder of Gurdeep Chaggar in 1976, the 1979 anti-fascist demonstrations and the death of Blair Peach a...

    Young Rebels - The Story of the Southall Youth Movement
  • 2011
    Stall Stories: A History of Brixton Market

    Stall Stories: A History of Brixton Market (2011)

    Stall Stories: A History of Brixton Market

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    Made by Stockwell Primary School with support from digital:works with funding provided by the Heritage Lottery Fund....

    Stall Stories: A History of Brixton Market
  • 2018
    Towards a New Jerusalem - The Birth of the NHS

    Towards a New Jerusalem - The Birth of the NHS (2018)

    Towards a New Jerusalem - The Birth of the NHS

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    The story of the NHS....

    Towards a New Jerusalem - The Birth of the NHS
  • 2010
    One Below the Queen: Rowley Way Speaks for Itself

    One Below the Queen: Rowley Way Speaks for Itself (2010)

    One Below the Queen: Rowley Way Speaks for Itself

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    An exploration of the Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate, by the people living on it....

    One Below the Queen: Rowley Way Speaks for Itself
  • 2018
    A Spot Called Crayford - The Story of Hengest

    A Spot Called Crayford - The Story of Hengest (2018)

    A Spot Called Crayford - The Story of Hengest

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    The story of Hengest....

    A Spot Called Crayford - The Story of Hengest
  • 2022
    Cinema in Kingston: From Muybridge to the Multiplex

    Cinema in Kingston: From Muybridge to the Multiplex (2022)

    Cinema in Kingston: From Muybridge to the Multiplex

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    An oral history exploring the development of film projection and cinema in Kingston-on-Thames - from resident innovator Eadweard Muybridge through the heyday, decline, and re-emergence of cinema. Features interviews with historians, projectionists an...

    Cinema in Kingston: From Muybridge to the Multiplex
  • 2019
    On the Docks

    On the Docks (2019)

    On the Docks

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    This project is an oral history of London's dock workers focusing on the fascinating history of the people who worked on the docks of London from the 1930s up until the closing of the docks from the 1970s....

    On the Docks
  • 2019
    Escaping the Blitz

    Escaping the Blitz (2019)

    Escaping the Blitz

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    Operation Pied Piper was the name of the plan designed to evacuate children from areas at risk from bombing and invasion....

    Escaping the Blitz
  • 2019
    Panjabis of Southall

    Panjabis of Southall (2019)

    Panjabis of Southall

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    This oral history documentary tells the story of early pioneering Panjabis who migrated to Southall in the 1950s and 1960s, their journey, settlement & struggles to establish themselves at work, in housing, in business and cultivate cultural activiti...

    Panjabis of Southall
  • 2019
    Brewing Stories

    Brewing Stories (2019)

    Brewing Stories

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    This film is an oral history of the people who worked in the three main Thames side breweries in West London. These breweries were major employers - their smoke and smells dominating this part of London for hundreds of years....

    Brewing Stories
  • 2018
    Battersea Junction: Stories from Winstanley and York Road Estates

    Battersea Junction: Stories from Winstanley and York Road Estates (2018)

    Battersea Junction: Stories from Winstanley and York Road Estates

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    Interviews edited and combined with archive and personal photos as well as archive footage to make a unique documentary film starring local people....

    Battersea Junction: Stories from Winstanley and York Road Estates
  • 2018
    Panjabi Wrestling

    Panjabi Wrestling (2018)

    Panjabi Wrestling

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    Exploring the history of Pehlwani....

    Panjabi Wrestling
  • 2018
    Sherbet Dab

    Sherbet Dab (2018)

    Sherbet Dab

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    There are many stories, funny, sad and poignant, and through these stories we get an insight into the history of the men and women who have driven the famous black cab....

    Sherbet Dab
  • 2014
    Wild West 10 - Golborne Stories of Struggle and Resistance

    Wild West 10 - Golborne Stories of Struggle and Resistance (2014)

    Wild West 10 - Golborne Stories of Struggle and Resistance

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    Golborne, West London, bordered by Ladbroke Grove, The Westway and the Grand Union Canal. An area that from the 1950s saw a unique struggle against poverty, greedy landlords, racism and political neglect to a musical backdrop of reggae, punk and carn...

    Wild West 10 - Golborne Stories of Struggle and Resistance
  • 2016
    Fares Please!

    Fares Please! (2016)

    Fares Please!

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    An oral history of London Bus Workers...

    Fares Please!
  • 2015
    The Weekend Millionaires

    The Weekend Millionaires (2015)

    The Weekend Millionaires

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    An Oral History of the Thames Lightermen....

    The Weekend Millionaires
  • 2015
    Home from Home

    Home from Home (2015)

    Home from Home

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    ANZACs in Westminster....

    Home from Home
  • 2014
    Orphans

    Orphans (2014)

    Orphans

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    A photographic installation under the Westway Flyover by Steve Mepsted....

    Orphans