Land and Freedom Ken Loach’s passionate war drama follows an idealistic young Liverpudlian (Ian Hart) who fights for the international brigade during the Spanish Civil War. War 1995 105 mins Ken Loach The Stuart Hall Project Composed of film, music and photographs from the archives, a fascinating portrait of the life and times of the founder of cultural studies and the New Left Experience. Documentary 2013 99 mins John Akomfrah Comrades Bill Douglas' epic story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset labourers deported to Australia in the 1830s for forming a trade union. Historical drama 1987 182 mins Bill Douglas Winstanley An authentic historical drama about the visionary Gerrard Winstanley who led a group of impoverished 'Diggers' to assert their common rights. Biopic Historical drama 1976 96 mins Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo Skinflicker Tony Bicât’s radical, found-footage record of a revolutionary act, in which three dissidents kidnap a cabinet and torture a cabinet minister. Drama 1973 41 mins Tony Bicât Little Malcolm Delusional revolutionary Malcolm Scrawdyke (John Hurt) leads his Party of Dynamic Erection in a battle against an unseen nemesis in this dark comedy. Drama 1975 111 mins Stuart Cooper Laboured Party An unsuspecting Labour Party canvasser stumbles onto an experimental film set and is drawn into a strange atmosphere of uninhibited abandon. Documentary 1975 20 mins Stephen Dwoskin Riddles of the Sphinx Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s visually accomplished and intellectually rigorous film is one of the most important avant-garde films of the 1970s. Drama 1977 87 mins Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen Before the Revolution Bernardo Bertolucci's beautifully operatic film celebrates the passion and ideology of the 1960s, winner of the Cannes Critics' Week prize in 1964. Drama 1964 107 mins Bernardo Bertolucci Ascendancy An English aristocrat is driven to despair over the effects of violence on her family, in this powerful meditation on the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Drama 1983 82 mins Edward Bennett That Hamilton Woman Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier bring Hollywood glitz to the love affair between Lord Nelson and Emma Hamilton in the midst of political turmoil. Biopic Historical drama 1941 120 mins Alexander Korda The Birth of a Nation D W Griffith's highly controversial and abhorrently racist, yet historically significant American silent epic about the American Civil War and its aftermath. Historical drama 1915 191 mins D.W. Griffith Battleship Potemkin A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content. Historical drama 1925 69 mins Sergei M. Eisenstein
