Subcategories

• Religious Education
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Films

• AIDS: Iceberg / Tombstone (1986) Powerful public information films warning of the dangers of AIDS - then a brand new threat to public health
• Accident (1967)
• Angry Silence, The (1960) A factory worker who cannot afford to strike is victimised by his union
• Boys in Brown (1949) A progressive Borstal governor tries to reform his boys by understanding their problems
• Brief Encounter (1945)
• Brothers In Trouble (1995)
• Bullet Boy (2004) Gritty urban drama in which a minor argument escalates into full-on armed conflict, with fatal consequences
• Canterbury Tale, A (1944)
• Children of the Ruins (1948)
• Clockwork Orange, A (1971) A young man addicted to sex and violence is subjected to a government-sponsored brainwashing experiment
• Darling (1965)
• Defeated People, A (1946) The logistical and moral complexities faced by the Allies in dealing with the people of newly-defeated Germany
• Go Kart Go (1963) Children's Film Foundation drama about rival go-kart gangs, with a message that cheats never prosper
• Good-Time Girl (1948) A teenage runaway finds herself inexorably drawn to crime, despite the support of social services
• H.M.P. (1976) Three trainee prison officers learn the ropes - and also discuss the ethics of imprisonment
• Help Yourself (1950)
• Hindle Wakes (1931) The first sound adaptation of Stanley Houghton's Yorkshire play
• Kind of Loving, A (1962)
• Laughter in Paradise (1951) A practical joker persuades four relatives to humiliate themselves for money
• Man for All Seasons, A (1966) Drama about the moral dilemma of Sir Thomas More - should he be loyal to King Henry VIII or to his faith?
• My Name Is Joe (1998) Powerful Ken Loach film about the uneasy relationship between a reformed alcoholic and an idealistic social worker
• Next of Kin, The (1942)
• Pygmalion (1938) George Bernard Shaw won an Oscar for adapting his classic play for the screen
• Secret Agent (1936)
• Secret Place, The (1957)
• Small Faces (1995)
• Sweet Sixteen (2002) Ken Loach film about a Scottish teenager getting involved with drugs to drag himself out of poverty
• Tale of Two Cities, A (1958) Adaptation of Charles Dickens' French Revolutionary novel
• Touching the Void (2003) Mountaineering drama-documentary in which an accident leads to an unthinkable moral dilemma
• Trainspotting (1996) Iconic adaptation of Irvine Welsh's controversial novel
• Victim (1961) Groundbreaking drama in which a gay barrister risks blackmail and the destruction of his career in order to achieve justice
• Winslow Boy, The (1948) Terence Rattigan's adaptation of his own classic stage play
• Yield to the Night (1956) Diana Dors stars in a powerful anti-capital punishment film
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TV Programmes

• All's Well That Ends Well (1981)
• Cold Light, The (1956) The ethical dilemmas of a German physicist who flees the Nazis, works on the US nuclear programme, and then develops Soviet sympathies
• Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks (1975) The Doctor has the chance to destroy his old enemy at birth - but does he have the right?
• Guardians, The (1971)
• Just Another Saturday (1975)
• Mansfield Park (1983)
• Mayor of Casterbridge, The (1978) Dennis Potter adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel
• Measure For Measure (1979) Distinguished BBC Television Shakespeare production of the play about the consequences of a moral crackdown
• Measure For Measure (1994) Hi-tech update of Shakespeare's knotty morality play
• Merchant of Venice, The (1974) Laurence Olivier plays Shylock in Jonathan Miller's National Theatre Shakespeare adaptation
• Police (1982) Groundbreaking fly-on-the-wall documentary that caused the police to change their rape victim interview procedures
• Precious Blood, The (1996) Various people in Belfast - including a terrorist turned preacher - try to come to terms with their experiences of the Troubles
• Scum (1977) A brutal depiction of life in the Borstal system, which was made by the BBC but not shown for nearly fifteen years
• Storm Damage (2000) Powerful drama about the troubled inhabitants of a London children's home
• This Week 404: Birth Control (1963) Dilemmas faced by poor but devout Catholics who want to limit the size of their families
• This Week 444: Divorce (1964) A study of the legal, practical and religious drawbacks of ending a marriage
• This Week 473: Abortion - A Law for the Rich? (1965) Documentary about abortion, made at a time when it was almost totally illegal
• To Encourage the Others (1972) Dramatisation of the 1952 Craig and Bentley case, which became a major plank in the anti-capital punishment cause
• Trials of Oz, The (1991) A dramatisation of the notorious 'Oz' magazine obscenity trial of summer 1971
• Tumbledown (1988) Lacerating drama about the Falklands War and its aftermath, specifically about how the British Army treats its wounded
• You, Me and Marley (1992) Three joyriding teenagers in Belfast fall foul of both the RUC and the IRA
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Collections

• Social Problem Films Films from the 1940s to the 1960s that dramatised pressing social issues from crime to homosexuality
• The Hays Code The moral code that governed mid-20th century American film-making
• 'Fly on the Wall' TV Observational documentary technique that is as revealing as it is controversial
• 'One of Thatcher's Children' 1980s Britain as seen through the eyes of director Alan Clarke
• All's Well That Ends Well On Screen A survey of adaptations of Shakespeare's bitter, cynical, morally ambivalent 'romance'
• Measure For Measure On Screen A survey of adaptations and analyses of Shakespeare's complex morality play
• Shakespeare's Problem Plays The complex, open-ended morality plays of Shakespeare's middle years
• The Merchant of Venice On Screen An overview of British film and TV versions of Shakespeare's forever controversial tragicomedy
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People and Organisations

• Clarke, Alan (1935-1990) Radical and often controversial director who specialised in hard-hitting depictions of society's marginal figures
• Dearden, Basil (1911-1971) Prolific and versatile director best known for his 'social problem' films of the 1940s and 1950s
• Loach, Ken (1936-) The doyen of British social realism, whose five-decade career is the epitome of artistic integrity
• Whitehouse, Mary (1910-2001) Veteran 'clean up TV' campaigner whose name became shorthand for a certain kind of black-and-white morality
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