Philip Donnellan Movies

A bitter account of the marginal status of the community of male Irish migrants responsible for rebuilding much of Britain's post-war infrastructure....

Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel.

The hero-figure of the British coalfield - is he real? or imaginary? is he man? or machine?

1973 documentary on boxing from filmmaker Philip Donnellan, inspired by an original Radio Ballad of the same name by Charles Parker, Ewan MacColl and...

A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992....

BBC documentary exploring the changing lifestyles of the long-entrenched British traveller as society grows more industrialised and wary of those...

A railwayman from St. Kitts, a bus conductor from Jamaica, a family of singers from Trinidad and a nurse from Barbados ... Philip Donnellan's...

Celebrates the life of Jack Elliott, a coal miner from Birtley, Co Durham. In 1962 Jack talked to a film crew about his life as a miner. In 1966 he...

A portrait of Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah

A day in the life of Joe, a chainmaker from Cradley Heath near Birmingham, UK in the late 1950s