Movies: Birmingham
- 1964
Home for Heroes? (1964)
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Black and white 16mm film sequences of Birmingham....
- 1969
Walsall Pact (1969)
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A fringe communist party struggles to entrench itself within a pro-Palestinian encampment at a British university. Meanwhile, in 1967, the New Left grapples with an unconvinced public....
- 1930
The Workshop of the World: Birmingham (1930)
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Spellbinding images of Birmingham between the wars....
- 1947
Midland Journey (1947)
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Tourist promo film extolling the delights of Birmingham and the Midlands, with a sprinkling of arch one-liners....
- 2021
Paradise Lost: History in the Un-Making (2021)
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When filmmaker Andy Howlett set out with his camera to document the final days of Birmingham's Brutalist Central Library complex, little did he know the rabbit hole he was stumbling into. Decried by the Council as an eyesore, but hailed by Historic E...
- 2021
Philoxenia (2021)
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Philoxenia is a short documentary highlighting the synergy between the Greek notion of philoxenia ("friend of the stranger") and Southern hospitality, as expressed through Birmingham, Alabama's Greek-owned restaurants. The film features six local fav...