♦ Tony Benn – Will and Testament
♦ Miners’ strike: Still the Enemy Within
♦ Nazi death camps: Night Will Fall
Tony Benn, the longest serving Labour MP in history, is also, arguably, the most popular UK politician of all time. Across the globe and in particular over the last five years his brand of socialism has struck a chord with people of all ages and social backgrounds. For the first time ever thro ugh intimate, quasi confessional interviews and his personal, photographic and film archive Will And Testament reveals a very human face behind the political mask.
In this feature length film, Tony Benn also criss-crosses the UK bearing witness to major social and political upheavals and events. This documentary is an exclusive and deeply personal look at the life of a national treasure, a frank, candid and sometimes painful exploration of the great themes of life that affected him and affect us all, love, loss, hopes, dreams, fears and death. Never before has a person of his calibre and reputation spoken to camera in such a direct way.
Screenings at National Media Museum, Bradford
FRIDAY 3 OCTOBER, 1520 and 17.35
SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER , 16.30 with live satellite Q&A
WEDNESDAY 8 OCTOBER , 20.35
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Two other essential films
Still the Enemy Within
Still the Enemy Within is a unique insight into one of history’s most dramatic events: the 1984-85 British Miners’ Strike. No experts. No politicians. Thirty years on, this is the raw first-hand experience of those who lived through Britain’s longest strike. Follow the highs and lows of that life-changing year.
TRAILER STILL THE ENEMY WITHIN- OUT OCT 3RD from Bad Bonobo on Vimeo.
Presentation at the National Media Museum, plus Q&A from production team
Wednesday Oct 15, 17.45
Other showings
4th Oct: Prince Charles Cinema Leicester Square, London (SOLD OUT)
6th Oct: The Cornerhouse Cinema, Manchester
6th Oct: Bafta, London – Members only
9th Oct: Crouch End Art House, London
9th Oct: Market Hall Cinema Wales – WELSH PREMIERE!
11th Oct: The Lexi Cinema, Kensal Rise
11th Oct: Rio Cinema Dalston, London
11th Oct: The Gala Cinema, Durham
12th Oct: Stratford Picture House, London
14th Oct: The Barbican Cinema, London
14th Oct: Chapter Arts Cinema, Cardiff
16th Oct: Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford
16th Oct: The Shortwave Cinema, Bermondsey
19th Oct: Cambridge Arts Picturehouse
20th Oct: Brighton Komedia
21st Oct: Curzon Clevedon, Somerset
21st Oct: The Cube, Bristol
22th Oct: Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
23th Oct: FACT Liverpool
24th Oct: The Moston Small Cinema, Manchester
25th Oct: Barnsley Civic-
26th Oct: Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds
26th Oct: Hebden Bridge Picture House, Hebden
27th Oct: York Picturehouse
28th Oct: Lochgelly Lecture Theatre, Fife
28th Oct: The Grosvenor, Glasgow
1st Nov: The Electric Palace, Hastings
2nd Nov: Hippodrome Community Cinema, Falkirk
2nd Nov: Cameo, Edinburgh
3rd Nov: The Lighthouse, Wolverhampton
4th Nov: Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
4th Nov: Into Film (Schools Festival) Cambridge
4th Nov: The Macrobert Cinema, Stirling
5th Nov: The Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington – Call Box Office on 01805 624624
6th Nov: The Macrobert Cinema, Stirling (Matinee – No Q&A)
6th Nov: The Plaza Cinema, Liverpool
9th Nov: The Little Theatre, Bath
10th Nov: Nottingham Broadway, Nottingham
11th Nov: The Quad, Derby
12th Nov: The Phoenix, Leicester
13th Nov: The Stow Film Lounge, Walthamstow
20th Nov: UCL, London
23rd Nov: Arnolfini, Bristol
4th Dec: The Robert Burns Film Centre, Dumfries
4th Dec: Rich Mix, London (Alongside exhibition)
5th Dec: The Belfast Film Festival
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Night Will Fall
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened.
Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums. This eloquent, lucid documentary by André Singer (executive producer of the award-winning The Act of Killing) tells the extraordinary story of the filming of the camps and the fate of Bernstein’s project, using original archive footage and eyewitness testimonies.
Screenings
3-9 October
Tyneside Newcastle
3-10 October
IFI Dublin
4-5 October
Corn Exchange, Newbury
4-6 October
National Media Museum Bradford
Special showing with introduction and discussion: Friday October 17, 14:00
4-10 October
IFI Dublin
5 October
Saffron Screen
9 October
Robert Burns Centre Dumfries
12-14 October
Errol Flynn Picturehouse
13 October
Arthouse Crouch End
14 October
Abbeygate Picturehouse
15, 19 October
Mareel Shetland
20 October
Rex Berkhamsted
20-23 October
Edinburgh Filmhouse
22-23 October
JW3 Finchley
22-23 October
Belmont Aberdeen
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