Michael Grigsby

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Michael Grigsby

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The Time of Our Lives

Michael Grigsby

A large family in London's East End is celebrating a birthday party. Children and grandchildren from this extensive family have come to the party from all over England. At the party the family members talk about hope and dreams for their children. The past and present lives of various relatives are compared with each other, while fragments from radio-programmes from the fourties and the fifties draw an emotional and historical line. Set against this archive material are fierce images of modern day family life in urban England in the year 1993. This makes the film a collage of dreams, memories and images of present-day life.

Living on the Edge

Michael Grigsby

Documentary by Michael Grigsby

We Went to War

Michael Grigsby

In 1970, British director Michael Grigsby made one of the first films about soldiers returning home from the battlefields of Vietnam. Over forty years later Grigsby returns to Texas with fellow filmmaker Rebekah Tolley, to the stories of veterans David, Dennis & Lamar

Tomorrow's Saturday

Michael Grigsby

Impressions of a typical weekend in Blackburn in the early 1960s.

Small Is Beautiful: The Story of the Free Cinema Films Told by Their Makers

Christophe Dupin

Walter Lassally, Michael Grigsby

Enginemen

Michael Grigsby

The working day of enginemen at Newton Heath locomotive sheds, Manchester. They discuss the impact of dieselisation on their jobs.

I Was a Soldier

Michael Grigsby

Three young Texans try to adjust to small-town life after experiencing the emotional toll of combat in the jungles of Vietnam.

Bag of Yeast

Michael Grigsby

Neville Smith, Alison Steadman

When teacher Tony Scannell decides he wants to be ordained as a Catholic Priest his decision has wide ranging effects on his family and loved ones.

Hidden Voices

Michael Grigsby

Director Michael Grigsby's portrait of a Britain largely forgotten in the 1990s - the entertainers in social clubs, and the people they entertain.

A Life Apart: Anxieties in a Trawling Community

Michael Grigsby

A Life Apart is about a deep sea fishing community in North West England. This place was run very much as if it was in Victorian England. It was a one company town – all fishing – and if anybody stepped out of line they were chopped, they were sacked. As a result the working conditions, the money etc. were appalling and nobody dare say anything because if they spoke out: no job; and they weren’t given any explanation.

Right To Work March

Frances de la Tour, Tony Anscombe

Young Socialists from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea march to London and discuss their economic struggles en route. Supporting them are Ken Loach, Corin Redgrave, Arnold Wesker and other leading cultural figures of the left of British politics. The march is intercut with scenes dramatising parallel injustices in the English Civil War era and earlier - featuring Frances de la Tour in queenly mode as Elizabeth I. The film's unconventional structure also features frequent extracts of the rousing pop concert, with the band Slade, which culminated the epic march.