Franco Rosso (29 August 1941 – 9 December 2016) was an Italian-born film producer and director based in England. He is known for making films about Black British culture, and in particular for the 1980 cult film Babylon, about Black Jamaican youth in south London, which was backed by the National Film Finance Corporation.
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23 September 1971
BBC documentary focusing on a reggae concert held at Wembley Stadium in 1970 featuring the Pyramids, Pioneers, Black Faith, Millie, the Maytals, and Desmond Dekker.
24 March 1969
John and Yoko in the presidential suite at the Hilton Amsterdam, which they had decorated with hand-drawn signs above their bed reading "Bed Peace.
03 April 1970
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes.
07 November 1980
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
22 August 1973
The Mangrove Nine trial resulted from conflict between the police and the Black community in Notting Hill that had escalated from the end of the 1960s onwards.
01 September 1979
Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.
19 October 1972
They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.
28 February 1974
BBC Schools documentary about the successful British rock band The Sweet, their riches and the price of fame.
20 February 1988
A boy reads about the attacks of a unknown animal on livestock in the town. He plans to run his own investigation.
01 January 1986
Documentary about the life and career of the 1940s and 1950s boxer Randy Turpin.
01 January 1987
Documentary on the Harlesden People's Community Council, formed by the people of the Stonebridge estate in Harlesden, Brent, and their struggle to develop a disused London Transport bus terminus into a community complex.
01 August 1983
Ian Dury, singer/songwriter of Kilburn and the High Roads and the Blockheads, talks about how becoming disabled has affected his life and music.
