Moving History - a guide to UK film and television archives in the public sector

Social and political

The media of film and television have long been used to illustrate and promote social and political issues and serve as a direct political campaigning tool by all sections of the political spectrum. Films and programmes in this category tackle issues such as housing, health, unemployment, war, the lives of leading political figures, television news coverage of daily political and social issues, and government propaganda.

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A Defeated People (1946) Imperial War Museum
Above Us The Earth (1977) National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
Band of Hope Demonstration (1913) Screen Archive South East
Co-operation (1972) Media Archive for Central England
Dartington Forestry and Sawmill (1920s) The South West Film & Television Archive
Deadly the Harvest (1960) BFI NFTVA - Non-Fiction Collection
Early BBC television newsreel (1948 - 1954) BFI NFTVA - Television Collection
International Brigade (1938) BFI NFTVA - Non-Fiction Collection
Labour and the New Society (1941) East Anglian Film Archive
Let Glasgow Flourish (1952/1956) Scottish Screen Archive
Pink Shirts (1934/5) National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
Progress Report No.2 1948 Scottish Screen Archive
Sussex 1939 (1939) Screen Archive South East
The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918) National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
The Smiths and the Robinsons (1953) Imperial War Museum
Together (1958) BFI NFTVA - Fiction Collection
UNTV - Video Letter 'Draga' (1994) Imperial War Museum

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