My Childhood
My Childhood
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The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he...
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My Ain Folk
My Ain Folk7/101973HDWhen Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his...
Comrades
Comrades6.9/101987HDThe story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign...
My Way Home
My Way Home7.1/101978HDJamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the...
Sleepwalker
Sleepwalker6.1/101984HDSaxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.
Come Dancing
Come Dancing5.8/101970HDCelebrated filmmaker Bill Douglas’s early student short follows two men who meet in a cafe on a Southend pier. Glances, body language and very...
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend0/102023HDThe story of the extraordinary friendship between Scottish film maker Bill Douglas and his lifelong companion and collaborator Peter Jewell. Bill...
Working Surface: A Short Study (with Actors) in the 'Ways' of a Bourgeois Writer
Working Surface: A Short Study (with Actors) in the 'Ways' of a Bourgeois Writer7.2/101979HDBill Douglas plays a writer struggling with a script about the interior lives of two women (played by Joanna David and Heather Page).
Home and Away
Home and Away0/101974HDA young boy away at boarding school struggles when his mother and father split up.
Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image8.8/102006HDA documentary exploring Bill Douglas' struggle from childhood poverty to acclaimed filmmaker of Comrades and the Trilogy.
Fever
Fever0/101967HDDisplaying the cinematic influence of Bunuel and Cocteau, and inspired by a short story by French writer JMG Le Clézio, Bill’s most...
The Ring of Truth
The Ring of Truth0/101996HDSet in the Necropolis graveyard, Glasgow. A comic and magical tale about the meaning of life and a hunt for a missing diamond ring. An ex-B movie...
Still Life
Still Life0/101968HDAn elderly woman is admitted to an asylum and all her possessions are removed by the council. The idea came from Peter Jewell, who was working as a...
Small World
Small World0/101968HDA rare “talkie” displaying Bill’s gift for dialogue, Small World is a comedy of manners about two married couples who meet by...
Woman in the Park
Woman in the Park0/101967HDA Hitchcockian psychodrama about an introverted man who pursues a woman with whom he becomes obsessed, demonstrating Bill’s improving grasp of...
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The Water Cress File
The Water Cress File0/101966HDPlaying with the tropes of the spy genre, The Water Cress File charts the progress of a mysterious briefcase, passed between several characters on...
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Gracemary
Gracemary0/101966HDA young woman runs to catch the last post with her weekly pools coupon, whilst imagining a more glamorous life for herself.
