Query: Films about the mass media in the UK
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Maxwell (film)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film)
Me and the Big Guy
Nineteen Eighty-Four (British TV programme)
Headline Hunters (1968 film)
Shehr e Tabassum
The Ploughman's Lunch
1984 (1956 film)
Hillary 1984
Evidence from documents: Maxwell (film): '''''Maxwell''''' is a 2007 British television drama about the last days of media magnate Robert Maxwell, played by David Suchet, which was originally broadcast on BBC Two.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film): '''''Nineteen Eighty-Four''''', also known as '''''1984''''', is a 1984 British dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Michael Radford, based upon George Orwell's 1949 novel of the same name. Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, and Cyril Cusack, the film follows the life of Winston Smith, a low-ranking civil servant in a war-torn London ruled by Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. Smith (Hurt) struggles to maintain his sanity and his grip on reality as the regime's overwhelming power and influence persecutes individualism and individual thinking on both a political and personal level.
Me and the Big Guy: '''''Me and the Big Guy''''' is a 1999 short film that parodies George Orwell's 1949 novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' by way of lampooning the fact that Big Brother is watching everyone, even those he'd rather not.
Directed and written by Matt Nix, this short film follows the life of unnervingly happy-go-lucky Citizen 43275-B (played by Michael Naughton), who despite the oppressive totalitarian regime and Thought Police looks ever forward to returning home and telling 'The Big Guy' (played by Dan Kern) on the telescreen about his work-day.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (British TV programme): '''''Nineteen Eighty-Four''''' is a British television adaptation of the 1949 novel of the same name by George Orwell, originally broadcast on BBC Television in December 1954. The production proved to be hugely controversial, with questions asked in Parliament and many viewer complaints over its supposed subversive nature and horrific content. In a 2000 poll of industry experts conducted by the British Film Institute to determine the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' was ranked in seventy-third position.
Headline Hunters (1968 film): '''''Headline Hunters''''' is a 1968 British children's drama film starring Leonard Brockwell, Susan Payne, Stephen Garlick, Bill Owen, David Lodge and Frank Williams.
A bunch of kids help run the local newspaper after their father becomes ill. In the process they foil a robbery at a local factory
Shehr e Tabassum: '''''Shehr e Tabassum''''' (), officially translated as '''''City of Smiles''''', is a 2020 Pakistani Urdu-language animated short film directed by Arafat Mazhar and produced by Puffball Studios. It features an animated depiction of Pakistan set in a dystopian future of 2071 where crime and violent disagreements have been minimized by using technology to force everyone to constantly smile and not show negative emotions under threat of death.
The Ploughman's Lunch: '''''The Ploughman's Lunch''''' is a 1983 British drama film written by Ian McEwan and directed by Richard Eyre which features Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry, and Rosemary Harris.


The film looks at the media world in Margaret Thatcher's Britain around the time of the Falklands War. It was part of Channel 4's ''Film on Four'' strand, enjoying a critically lauded theatrical release prior to the television screenings.
James Penfield is an ambitious London-based BBC radio reporter, from humble origins but Oxford-educated. He is commissioned to write a book on the Suez Crisis, claiming not to be a socialist; at that time, the 1982 Falklands War is dominating the British media.
1984 (1956 film): '''''1984''''' is a 1956 British black-and-white science fiction film, based on the 1949 novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' by George Orwell, depicting a totalitarian future of a dystopian society.
Hillary 1984: suggested that the video demonstrated the way technology had created new opportunities for individuals to make an impact on politics.