Silent cinema
South
Photographed by Frank Hurley, South is the film record of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s heroic but ill-starred attempt to cross Antarctica in 1914-
The Soviet Influence: From Turksib to Night Mail
In the early 1930s, under the nervous eye of the censor, Soviet propaganda films were shown in Britain.
A Throw of Dice
“A cross between Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille and an early Bollywood movie” – Nitin Sawhney.