Out of the Rubble Visionary filmmaker Penny Woolcock explores half a century of British urban life using films digitised for Britain on Film, the archive project from BFI and its partner archives. Short documentary 2016 18 mins Ladywood Redevelopment The tattered wallpaper of part demolished housing contrasts with gleaming new tower blocks. Ladywood in Birmingham may be on the up but what about the forgotten people? News Non-Fiction 1965 7 mins New Towns for Old Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII. Documentary Government sponsored film 1942 6 mins A City Reborn Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas. Documentary Government sponsored film 1945 22 mins Rotherham up to Date An absorbing picture of council services at the beginning of the 1960s, with babies getting polio jabs and girls having braces fitted, while Roots is playing at the Civic Theatre. Promotional 1961 39 mins Bull Ring Shopping Centre A bright and breezy promotional tour of Brum's original mega-mall. Documentary 1965 26 mins Housing Makes History Residents of Barnet and Stockton-on-Tees are the lucky beneficiaries of a government scheme to remedy Britain’s housing problem. Campaigning film 1953 18 mins Milton Keynes - A Village City "The most exciting thing going on in Europe, if not the world": welcome to Milton Keynes circa 1973. Cinemagazine 1973 8 mins Do Something! This Week investigates how racial tensions in Islington are being stoked by social pressures, and what residents are doing to improve the area. Current affairs 1970 27 mins Squatters To the front line of London's early 1970s' housing crisis in this angry campaign film. Documentary 1970 17 mins Belfast - No Way Out What was life really like in 1970s Belfast? Beyond the Troubles, This Week talks to people in poverty struggling to cope in the city. Current affairs 1970 27 mins Barbican Regained Fascinating look at the Barbican – before it became the brutalist icon we know today. Documentary Industry sponsored film 1963 17 mins
