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Jill Craigie was an English documentary film director, screenwriter, socialist and feminist. Born to a Russian mother and a Scottish father, she was married to the Labour Party politician Michael Foot, whom she met during the making of her film The Way We Live.
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07 January 1954
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds.
05 October 1946
Drama and documentary are combined in this stylish and ambitious film, in which 3000 local people took part.
29 March 1995
Documentary about the outbreak of the war in former Yugoslavia that calls on the leaders of Europe to come to the aid of the stricken country.
28 June 1937
Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly.
09 April 1949
1940s British realist film about the life and struggles of a family in a Welsh mining town.
01 January 1948
The ill effects on children's bodies and minds of the chaotic conditions being countered by the endeavours of UNESCO.
07 December 1957
A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage.
02 January 1944
Examines the role of art in WWII; featuring Henry Moore's drawings of London Underground during bombing raids, Paul Nash's paintings of aircraft dumps, Stanley Spencer's shipbuilding panels, Evelyn Dunbar's land girls, alongside many amateur artists too.
06 September 1943
Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.
02 January 1951
Documentary arguing the case for equal pay for women. Women are seen employed in their homes, in factories, teaching, nursing, in politics and in the professions.
25 August 2020
Some time after her death, film director Jill Craigie (1911- 99), re-opens an old suitcase, prompting memories of the extraordinary life and loves of this forceful, charismatic woman, whose work has been long neglected.
19 July 1997
A profile of Michael Foot, the former leader of the Labour Party, which included footage of him on the night of Tony Blair’s historic 1997 victory, and interviews with his wife, the filmmaker Jill Cragie, and some of his old colleagues and friends, including Barbara Castle, Spike Milligan and Salman Rushdie.
