Michael Grigsby Movies

They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.

The working day of enginemen at Newton Heath locomotive sheds, Manchester. They discuss the impact of dieselisation on their jobs.

Director Michael Grigsby's portrait of a Britain largely forgotten in the 1990s - the entertainers in social clubs, and the people they entertain.

A young boy's first trip to sea on a Grimsby deep-sea trawler.

State of the Nation documentary concerning 1980s Britain.

This day in the life of a 1950s Abingdon School in Oxfordshire.

In 1970, British director Michael Grigsby made one of the first films about soldiers returning home from the battlefields of Vietnam. Over forty...

Documentary on the village of Witton Park in Durham that has been under the threat of extinction for 27 years but which the villagers are determined...

A large family in London's East End is celebrating a birthday party. Children and grandchildren from this extensive family have come to the party...

Three young Texans try to adjust to small-town life after experiencing the emotional toll of combat in the jungles of Vietnam.

This film portrait of Abingdon School in Oxfordshire is doubly fascinating: a glimpse into 1950s public school life and the juvenilia of a great...

For the Eskimos of Pond Inlet - a new village in North Baffin Island in which they have been settled by the Canadian Government – the life of...

When teacher Tony Scannell decides he wants to be ordained as a Catholic Priest his decision has wide ranging effects on his family and loved ones.

Docmentary about deep sea fishing community in North West England. This place was run very much as if it was in Victorian England. It was a one...

Impressions of a typical weekend in Blackburn in the early 1960s.

In North East England men make a living collecting coal washed-up on beaches from underground seams.