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This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Winfried Junge

Like many women active during the miners' strike, May Murton (Charlie Hardwick) has been left to clean up the mess. The closure of the pit, a failed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charlie Hardwick

The Jellyfish employs a variety of experimental approaches, combining stop-motion and pixilation techniques, freely mixing black and white...

Genre: Animation

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An experimental mix of thriller and documentary exploring the scandal centred on the one-time Newcastle Council Leader, aka The Mouth of the Tyne,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: T. Dan Smith

Set in the harness racing fraternity, this feature drama explores the conflict between urban and rural values and the relationship between an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brian Hogg

Betty and her daughter Corinna are introduced to the harsh seacoaling way of life by Ray, an ex-seacoaler returning from a job with ICI. His offer of...

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Cast: Amber Styles

A feature drama set in the declining fishing industry in North Shields, the film centres on the upheaval caused in a traditional fishing community by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joanna Ripley

A magical realist feature drama exploring the lives of a women’s darts team on North Shields’ Meadow Well Estate.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Mo Harrold

The last pits have closed, the redundancy money has been spent and a family is in crisis. 70 year old pigeon man Arthur Elliott is losing his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ned Kelly

Documentation of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election, which saw Tony Benn returned to parliament, and the early days of the Miners’ Strike which...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony Benn

Activities leading up to the launch of a large ship built at the Swan Hunter's Wallsend shipyard.

Genre: Documentary

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A partly dramatised documentary built around Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photographs of the Newcastle terraced community, demolished to make way...

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A meditation on a lost era and the regenerative power of the sea, Song For Billy grew out of the haunting photographs of Sirkka-Liisa...

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A documentation of the eponymous area of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, then under threat of redevelopment.

Genre: Documentary

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Portrait of Laurie Wheatley, a former plasterer with a life long interest in photography, drawing, painting and sculpture. Follows the production of...

Genre: Documentary

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Tynesiders speak up - three talk to camera about their lives. Jim, a union activist; Betty, a housewife; and Arthur, a retired fish quay worker, talk...

Genre: Documentary

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A richly lyrical documentary celebration of the vibrant beach life in the North East of England, constructed entirely out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's...

Genre: History

Cast: Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

Combines footage of the 100th Durham Miner's Gala held in 1983, with extracts from a miners' weekend school held two months later, to raise the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony Benn

A documentary arising out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Byker Revisited portraits from the different communities that now live on the Byker Wall...

Genre: Documentary

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Feelings of fear and isolation felt by an elderly woman navigating the new urban environments that had increasingly replaced traditional working...

Genre: Animation

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