Movies: Darcus Howe

  • 2024
    Joan Rivers at the BBC

    Joan Rivers at the BBC (2024)

    Joan Rivers at the BBC

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    Katherine Ryan presents a celebration of one of the biggest comedy talents to ever appear on the small screens – the razor-sharp-tongued first lady of laughter, Joan Rivers....

    Joan Rivers at the BBC
  • 2004
    What Ron Said

    What Ron Said (2004)

    What Ron Said

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    A look at the end of the footballing television career of Ron Atkinson...

    What Ron Said
  • 1987
    Partition

    Partition (1987)

    Partition

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    The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in the city of Lahore becomes a mirror image of events in the outs...

    Partition
  • 1969
    Da Silva, Da Silva

    Da Silva, Da Silva (1969)

    Da Silva, Da Silva

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    Dramatisation of part of Wilson Harris' novel "Da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness"....

    Da Silva, Da Silva
  • 1973
    The Mangrove Nine

    The Mangrove Nine (1973)

    The Mangrove Nine

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    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. The Mangrove case began when around 150 Black people protested against long-term police ha...

    The Mangrove Nine
  • 2016
    Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact & Works of C.L.R James

    Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact & Works of C.L.R James (2016)

    Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact & Works of C.L.R James

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    Feature-length, crowd-funded documentary that interweaves never-before-seen footage of C.L.R. James, together with personal contributions from those who knew him, and historical and political analysis from leading scholars of his work. The film grapp...

    Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact & Works of C.L.R James
  • 2004
    Who You Callin' a Nigger?

    Who You Callin' a Nigger? (2004)

    Who You Callin' a Nigger?

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    To mark his 21st anniversary in broadcasting, the commentator Darcus Howe picks up on his chosen topic for another piece of work; racism. However, when Howe came to England "racism" was something that all ethnic groups faced from white people and it ...

    Who You Callin' a Nigger?
  • 1978
    Blacks Britannica

    Blacks Britannica (1978)

    Blacks Britannica

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    A documentary illustrating the black community's understanding of, and response to, racism in Britain. It presents from a black working class perspective, an analysis of racism within the context of British history and the post-war crisis of the Brit...

    Blacks Britannica
  • 2000
    White Tribe

    White Tribe (2000)

    White Tribe

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    Darcus Howe tries to find out why the English don't seem to want to be English any more....

    White Tribe