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This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

An experimental mix of thriller and documentary exploring the scandal centred on the one-time Newcastle Council Leader, aka The Mouth of the Tyne,...

A feature drama set in the declining fishing industry in North Shields, the film centres on the upheaval caused in a traditional fishing community by...

A magical realist feature drama exploring the lives of a women’s darts team on North Shields’ Meadow Well Estate.

Like many women active during the miners' strike, May Murton (Charlie Hardwick) has been left to clean up the mess. The closure of the pit, a failed...

Betty and her daughter Corinna are introduced to the harsh seacoaling way of life by Ray, an ex-seacoaler returning from a job with ICI. His offer of...

Activities leading up to the launch of a large ship built at the Swan Hunter's Wallsend shipyard.

Set in the harness racing fraternity, this feature drama explores the conflict between urban and rural values and the relationship between an...

Portrait of Laurie Wheatley, a former plasterer with a life long interest in photography, drawing, painting and sculpture. Follows the production of...

Tynesiders speak up - three talk to camera about their lives. Jim, a union activist; Betty, a housewife; and Arthur, a retired fish quay worker, talk...

A richly lyrical documentary celebration of the vibrant beach life in the North East of England, constructed entirely out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's...

The last pits have closed, the redundancy money has been spent and a family is in crisis. 70 year old pigeon man Arthur Elliott is losing his...

The Jellyfish employs a variety of experimental approaches, combining stop-motion and pixilation techniques, freely mixing black and white...

Combines footage of the 100th Durham Miner's Gala held in 1983, with extracts from a miners' weekend school held two months later, to raise the...

A documentation of the eponymous area of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, then under threat of redevelopment.

A meditation on a lost era and the regenerative power of the sea, Song For Billy grew out of the haunting photographs of Sirkka-Liisa...

Feelings of fear and isolation felt by an elderly woman navigating the new urban environments that had increasingly replaced traditional working...

Documentation of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election, which saw Tony Benn returned to parliament, and the early days of the Miners’ Strike which...

A partly dramatised documentary built around Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photographs of the Newcastle terraced community, demolished to make way...

A documentary arising out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Byker Revisited portraits from the different communities that now live on the Byker Wall...