Tony Garnett Trailers
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today TrailerGreg Davies: Looking for Kes TrailerVersus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach Trailer
Tony Garnett is a British film and television producer, director and former actor. He is best known for his thirteen-year association with director Ken Loach, which started with The Wednesday Play and the groundbreaking Cathy Come Home amongst others, and continued into Play For Today and big screen features such as Kes. His other TV productions have included the controversial Law and Order and The Spongers and, with his company World Productions, Between the Lines, Ballykissangel, Cops, Cardiac Arrest and This Life. As a director, he helmed the films Prostitute and Handgun, and produced Hollywood movies such as Earth Girls are Easy and Sesame Street's Follow That Bird, and British cult LGBT classic Beautiful Thing. In 2016, he released his memoir, The Day the Music Died.
Most Popular Tony Garnett Trailers
Total trailers found: 46
05 April 1995
Private investigator Nick Sharman accepts a case which at first seems intriguing, but ends up causing him bitter regret.
18 June 1973
An improvised character piece, overseen by Les Blair and Tony Garnett set in the everyday life of a group of polytechnic students.
07 September 1982
A boy goes to see his probation officer.
22 December 1965
When a boy discovers that both his parents are in prison, he sets out to find them.
17 April 1968
The obsessive supporters of Everton FC forsake wives, families and God to follow their beloved team. Meanwhile, the club and its players try to live up to their expectations.
19 November 2019
Comedian, actor and ex-English teacher Greg Davies is a lifelong fan of Barry Hines's classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave, the story of Billy Casper training a kestrel as an escape from his troubled home and school life.
01 September 2010
A documentary on the making of Kes, produced by the Criterion Collection.
09 September 1982
A couple of old friends drown their sorrows together while reveling in the naivety of a young newly-wed.
20 October 1989
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan.
08 September 1988
In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool.
21 January 1968
As the Nazis grow ever more powerful in Germany, Werner grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in high places.
01 January 1968
A reluctant teenager accompanies his family on a day out to a local beauty spot.
05 September 1982
A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.
09 April 1980
The tale of two women: Sandra, an ambitious but naive Birmingham working girl who moves to London with the hope of securing wealthier patrons, and Louise, her social worker friend, who is fighting to change the antiquated and hypocritical prostitution laws.
18 October 1997
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.
21 June 1996
During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.
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.
02 August 1985
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker, who thinks it would be better for him to live with other birds.
01 January 1963
In a late night chemist a shot bank robber has been taken for treatment, and to rendezvous with the gang leader.
12 May 1983
Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.
05 April 1967
The life and passions of a speaker at Hyde Park Corner.
24 January 1978
In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments.
31 August 1962
A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.
06 September 1982
A man on crutches bumps into an old acquaintance who relentlessly bombards him with small talk.
09 September 1979
When honest young Tolly is forced on the run with ‘Black Jack’, a villainous ruffian, adventure and mishap are never far away.
24 May 1967
A liberal white man becomes a Muslim to promote racial harmony.
20 September 1992
Roxanne (known as Roxy) is a star performer in her local soccer team. Her natural talent is noticed by local team owner Victor Grace who signs her up.
20 March 1968
A newlywed couple visits the husband's hometown of Geneva, where they are subjected to threats stemming from the death of his former fiancée.
08 September 1982
A window cleaner fancies a sausage roll, but all is not well in the sausage roll factory.
01 February 1967
The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.
01 January 1971
Director Ken Loach explores the politics of race, class and charity in a capitalist society in this documentary funded by the Save the Children foundation.
19 February 1969
After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves.
12 October 2020
Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies.
03 November 1965
The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London.
09 October 1970
A psychedelic documentary of the body electric, with music by Pink Floyd. The film was directed and produced by Roy Battersby.
17 November 1971
A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her own way in life.
01 May 1963
A pair of hoodlums steal a car in which there is a note - a ransom letter - directed to a wealthy man whose daughter has just been kidnapped.
12 March 1973
A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence.
30 June 2016
A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as he prepares to release his final major film I, Daniel Blake.
16 November 1966
Cathy and Reg are a couple with three young children, who find their life spiralling into poverty when Reg loses his well-paid job.
19 October 1972
They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.
01 March 1967
Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts.
08 December 1965
Semi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University.
01 January 2006
A documentary on the films of Ken Loach. Interviews with cast and crew who worked with Loach over the years.
05 April 1977
A month after the royal visit, the workers at Milton Colliery are brought crashing back down to earth by an underground explosion.
29 March 1977
The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit from Prince Charles.
