British 60s films

10 films reflecting the 1960s

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

Representative of the New Wave of early 1960s films

Victim (1961)A Basil Dearden/Michael Relph ‘Social Problem’ film of the

early 1960s

Billy Liar (1963) A new kind of ‘New Wave’ film, with comedy

rather than social realism

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)Pop culture and film culture meet head on

The Servant (1963)Pinter and Losey’s classic study of class in

Britain

Morgan: a suitable case for treatment (1966)Swinging London but with a cynical edge

Here we go round the mulberry bush (1967)

Swinging Stevenage, with your favourite ‘Mind Your Language’ star

Up the Junction (1967)A film adaptation of the BBC TV Ken Loach film ‘Up the

Junction’

Kes (1969)Poetic lyricism meets social realism in Loach’s masterpiece

If....(1968)The first of Lindsay Anderson’s trilogy on Britain