After the end of the Second World War – and as its overseas empire began to crumble – Britain embarked on the rocky road to national reconstruction and revival. The Locarno Film Festival’s wide-ranging survey of British cinema of that period, organized in partnership with the BFI and the Cinémathèque suisse, and with the support of STUDIOCANAL, shows the cultural response by the nation's filmmakers, writers, producers, performers, and studios as they collectively tried to make sense o...| Locarno Film Festival
Tracking shots: cinema and the railways have enjoyed a long journey together, starting in the Victorian era and yet to hit the buffers.| player.bfi.org.uk
Kicking off a new series celebrating the 200th anniversary of the UK’s passenger railways, curator Steven Foxon offers a whistle-stop tour of the long-running love affair between cinema and trains, from steam-powered dramas to diesel-fuelled documentaries.| BFI