Britain on Film (Documentary, English)
Genres: History
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2012-11-06
Ended: 2013-10-08
Network: BBC Four
Country: GB
Airs on: Tuesday
Air time: 20:30
Runtime: 30 minutes
In 1959 Britain's biggest cinema company, the Rank Organisation, decided to replace its newsreels with a series of short, quirky, topical documentaries that examined all aspects of life in Britain. For the next ten years, Look at Life chronicled - on high-grade 35mm colour film - the changing face of British society, industry and culture. Britain on Film draws upon the 500 films in this unique archive to offer illuminating and often surprising insights into what became a pivotal decade in modern British history.