A perfect stranger. The boy next door. A sparring partner. A friend from abroad. Peccadillo’s 23rd edition of their Boys on Film series presents ten encounters from across the globe, where the ...

Fleeting encounters, conversations about identity, and experiencing life and love in the most authentic way. Six contemporary stories of men exploring love, lust and modern dating. These award-winning ...

Is this Britain's oldest erotic film? Modern viewers might question how genuinely erotic it is, But it certainly pushes the boundaries of what was permissible in 1896 - and there's little doubt that ...

Striking, illuminating and sometimes surprising images of black culture, community and characters, spanning over a century of British film and TV.

Bush’s approach to music changed when he discovered the once famous composer, Rutland Boughton who was a member of the English Communist Party. Bush composed a series of operas which he hoped would ...

From Victorian voyeurism to Soho striptease: how a hidden film industry emerged to satisfy the sexual appetites of (male) viewers.

Poetry was Ellis Evans' passion- his life's ambition to be chaired at a National Eisteddfod. He achieved this at the Birkenhead Eisteddfod of 1917. Unfortunately, he never knew of his success as he ...

Resilient working-class heroine Jo (Rita Tushingham) flees her uncaring single mother (Dora Bryan) and gets pregnant by a black sailor (Paul Danquah). She seeks solace from another social outsider, a ...

Queen Victoria's long reign famously saw extraordinary advances: in industry, transport, science, culture... But one vital innovation is too often missed: the moving image, the last great invention of ...

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Whoops! When the resolute and independent-minded Jenny accidentally breaks her mother's treasured china dog, she's determined to replace it. Leaving only a note behind, she jumps on a train to Kent to ...

Blending ‘fictional’ re-creation, archive footage and musical performance, Pat Collins’ formally inventive, engagingly impressionistic film about Irish folk singer Joe Heaney is no conventional biopic ...