DOCUMENTARY: Britain Through a Lens (Dir: Chris Durlacher, 2011)

Social movement by John Grierson

Original documentaries made as social message, hoping to unite Britain. Hoping to lessen the building class divide with appreciation of the working man without making them a joke.

Listen to Britain (1942)
-No v/o
-Government propaganda

Industrial Britain (1931)
-First v/o
-Ordinary man shown as hero

Nightmail
-Meticulously researched
-Accompanied by poem and music
-Immersive, giving heavy sense of being in the action
-Real people but performing script (based on real conversations)

First Days (1939)
-Celebratory look at the start of WWII

Diary for Timothy
-Told through letter to child
-Can be uncomfortably honest (!!!)