Michael Foot
Biography: Michael Foot was a British politician and served as the leader of the Labour Party from 1980-1983. He was a pacifist and a supporter of CND who studied philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford. As a documentary screenwriter for the war effort in the 1940s, he worked alongside Frank Owen under the joint pseudonym of Michael Frank and was known for Young Veteran (1940), Yellow Caesar (1941). He was married to documentary filmmaker Jill Craigie.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 23, 1913
Deathday: March 03, 2010
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Labour's Old Romantic
1997-07-19
Labour's Old Romantic
Overview: A profile of Michael Foot, the former leader of the Labour Party, which included footage of him on the night of Tony Blair’s historic 1997 victory, and interviews with his wife, the filmmaker Jill Cragie, and some of his old colleagues and friends, including Barbara Castle, Spike Milligan and Salman Rushdie.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-19
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Cabinet Confidential
2001-11-17
Cabinet Confidential
Overview: A revealing one-off documentary that provides an inside view of how Tony Blair and former prime ministers - including Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and John Major - have run their cabinet, the highest decision-making body in the land. Through candid interviews, rare archive footage and filming inside No 10, presenter Michael Cockerell opens the door to the Government's own chamber of secrets as he seeks the answer to the question: is the notion of cabinet government an obsolete concept?
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-17
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From Beaconsfield to Baghdad
2007-05-18
From Beaconsfield to Baghdad
Overview: Parliamentary correspondent Robert Orchard reviews the highs and lows of Tony Blair's tumultuous relationship with Parliament.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-18
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Young Veteran
1940-12-01
Young Veteran
Overview: The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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Two Hours from London
1995-03-29
Two Hours from London
Overview: Documentary about the outbreak of the war in former Yugoslavia that calls on the leaders of Europe to come to the aid of the stricken country.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-29
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Independent Miss Craigie
2020-08-25
Independent Miss Craigie
Overview: Some time after her death, film director Jill Craigie (1911- 99), re-opens an old suitcase, prompting memories of the extraordinary life and loves of this forceful, charismatic woman, whose work has been long neglected. Craigie was one of the first women to direct documentaries. Working outside the British Documentary Movement in the 1940s and early 1950s, her films such as To Be Woman (1951), on equal pay, and Out of Chaos (1944), the first film about artists at work, featuring Henry Moore and Paul Nash, tackled new subjects for the cinema through a unique blend of drama, polemic and humour. Independent Miss Craigie uses the director’s unseen papers, and her films, to reveal her energetic struggles to get her radical projects made and distributed, including her last one, on the Yugoslav conflict, made when she was 83, with her husband, former Labour leader, Michael Foot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-25
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Rough Justice
1981-10-04
Rough Justice
Overview: Portrait of a fractious Welsh village near Merthyr Tydfil. Life in the valley isn't what it was, there's no pit in Deri now, but the humour survives, and it's amazingly peaceful considering.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-04
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In Search of Tony Blair
2004-06-11
In Search of Tony Blair
Overview: Ten years after he stepped to power as Labour leader, Tony Blair remains a national enigma. His persona as a fresh-faced idealist and man of the people has been shattered, most significantly by the war on Iraq. Now many are struggling to understand what remains behind the faltering smile.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-11
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