Michael Grigsby

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Biography

Michael Kenneth Christian Grigsby (7 June 1936 – 12 March 2013) was an English documentary filmmaker. With a filmography spanning six decades and nearly 30 films, Grigsby occupies a unique position in British documentary filmmaking, having witnessed and commented on many of the dramatic changes in British society (and beyond) from the late 1950s into the next century. As a critic noted, "from Michael Grigsby back to John Grierson runs an unbroken tradition in British documentary-making: a passionate commitment to the poetry of everyday life."

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Right to Work March

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

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Right to Work March

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Small Is Beautiful: The Story of the Free Cinema Films Told by Their Makers

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Enginemen

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

Enginemen

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

We Went to War

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In 1970, British director Michael Grigsby made one of the first films about soldiers returning home from the battlefields of Vietnam. Over forty years later Grigsby returns to Texas with fellow filmmaker Rebekah Tolley, to the stories of veterans David, Dennis & Lamar

I Was a Soldier

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

Tomorrow's Saturday

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

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Tomorrow's Saturday

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Dear Mr GorbachevMOVIE

Living on the Edge

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State of the Nation documentary concerning 1980s Britain.

Deckie Learner

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

A Life Apart: Anxieties in a Trawling Community

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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 company town – all fishing – and if anybody stepped out of line they were chopped, they were sacked. As a result the working conditions, the money etc. were appalling and nobody dare say anything because if they spoke out: no job; and they weren’t given any explanation.

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A Life Apart: Anxieties in a Trawling Community

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