Movies: Digital Works
- 2022
Reel Stories: An Oral History of London's Projectionists (2022)
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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....
- 2023
Hello Campers! (2023)
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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...
- 2014
Young Rebels - The Story of the Southall Youth Movement (2014)
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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...
- 2011
Stall Stories: A History of Brixton Market (2011)
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Made by Stockwell Primary School with support from digital:works with funding provided by the Heritage Lottery Fund....
- 2018
Towards a New Jerusalem - The Birth of the NHS (2018)
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The story of the NHS....
- 2010
One Below the Queen: Rowley Way Speaks for Itself (2010)
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An exploration of the Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate, by the people living on it....
- 2018
A Spot Called Crayford - The Story of Hengest (2018)
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The story of Hengest....
- 2022
Cinema in Kingston: From Muybridge to the Multiplex (2022)
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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...
- 2019
On the Docks (2019)
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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....
- 2019
Escaping the Blitz (2019)
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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....
- 2019
Panjabis of Southall (2019)
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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...
- 2019
Brewing Stories (2019)
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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....
- 2018
Battersea Junction: Stories from Winstanley and York Road Estates (2018)
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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....
- 2018
Panjabi Wrestling (2018)
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Exploring the history of Pehlwani....
- 2018
Sherbet Dab (2018)
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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....
- 2014
Wild West 10 - Golborne Stories of Struggle and Resistance (2014)
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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...
- 2016
Fares Please! (2016)
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An oral history of London Bus Workers...
- 2015
The Weekend Millionaires (2015)
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An Oral History of the Thames Lightermen....
- 2015
Home from Home (2015)
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ANZACs in Westminster....
- 2014
Orphans (2014)
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A photographic installation under the Westway Flyover by Steve Mepsted....