Douglas' magnificent award-winning trilogy is the product of an assured, formidable artistic vision. These are some of the most compelling films about British childhood ever made. Brutal, angry, bewildered yet also affectionate. Largely autobiographical, following Jamie (eight years old when we first meet him) as he grows up in a poverty-stricken mining village in post-war Scotland. A hard, gritty, hypnotic observation of growing up. find out more...

A surprisingly gritty slice of Rock and Roll nostalgia. David Essex is Jim Maclaine, a working-class West Country lad who, having been abandoned by his father at an early age, drops out of the exams that would lead to university and heads of to find his fortune as a rock star in a shabby seaside town. That'll Be the Day is made in the same downbeat, naturalistic way as the kitchen sink films of a decade before, but with a very upbeat rock'n'roll soundtrack. Some strange cameos (what was Ringo St find out more...