Any list of the best British films ever made, however long, will have dozens of omissions to offend just about everybody.

Pioneering horrors like Psycho and ultra-violent Westerns like The Wild Bunch are among the most groundbreaking and intense ...

Curator Ehsan Khoshbakht explains his selection, the roles of ruins and children in 1945-1960 films, and how "popular cinema was systematically attacked and destroyed by British film critics" back in ...

Movies in the 1960s marked a major turning point in cinematic history, as traditional picture formulas were sidelined in favor of more daring storytelling, social and political commentary, and ...

A movie still from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction film '2001: A Space Odyssey' starring Gary Lockwood. The 1960s were a decade of change in America and around the world. Minority rights were ...

August’s Locarno Film Festival will go British with its latest retrospective: Great Expectations: British Post-War Cinema, 1945-1960. The retrospective forms a major strand of the film festival’s ...

While Sir Sean Connery’s James Bond romanticised the world of Cold War espionage, Sir Michael Caine’s spy films presented a more grounded and accurate portrayal of the intelligence services. Based on ...