A railwayman from St. Kitts, a bus conductor from Jamaica, a family of singers from Trinidad and a nurse from Barbados ... Philip Donnellan's Birmingham-based film gives a voice to West Indian immigrants who movingly describe their experiences of trying to integrate into a surprisingly unwelcoming ‘mother country’. Shot in 1964 the film provides an important snapshot of Britain in the early stages of momentous social change and first-generation Afro-Caribbean immigration.
Philip Donnellan
Director
The Class of ‘9271%
A Plastic Ocean75%
God Grew Tired of Us72%
Directed by John Ford70%
Being James Bond77%
McQueen74%
My Mom Jayne80%
The Carter Effect70%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
35 Up76%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
180° South72%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Maria by Callas73%
Night Will Fall76%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Sherman's March67%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
