Handsworth Songs

Handsworth Songs

Handsworth Songs


(5.5 from 10 users)

1h 01m 1986 HD

Watch Handsworth Songs at FMovies. The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving archival photographs, newsreel clips, and home movie footage, the film is both an exploration of documentary aesthetics and a broad meditation social and cultural oppression through Britain’s intertwined narratives of racism and economic decline.

Handsworth Songs (1986)
Tags:   #Handsworth Songs 1986   #Handsworth Songs online   #Handsworth Songs FMovies   #Handsworth Songs FMoviesto   #Handsworth Songs FMovies-to   #Handsworth Songs FmoviesHD   #Black Audio Film Collective   #immigration   #race riot   #racism   #united kingdom   #birmingham

Comment

User

Related Movies

  • 2021
    Philoxenia

    Philoxenia

    Philoxenia

    02021HD

    Philoxenia is a short documentary highlighting the synergy between the Greek notion of philoxenia ("friend of the stranger") and Southern...

    Philoxenia
  • 1943
    New Home in the West

    New Home in the West

    New Home in the West

    01943HD

    This short film traces the journey of the first Ukrainian settlers in Canada. Seeking freedom and opportunity, they came here and became instrumental...

    New Home in the West
  • 2020
    One Book at a Time

    One Book at a Time

    One Book at a Time

    102020HD

    Sarah Kamya is a school counselor in New York City. She began the project Little Diverse Libraries on June 3rd and has already raised over $13,000,...

    One Book at a Time
  • 2024
    The Building and Burning of a Refugee Camp

    The Building and Burning of a Refugee Camp

    The Building and Burning of a Refugee Camp

    02024HD

    Three men seeking asylum in Ireland find themselves on the streets, caught between restrictive migration policies and an increasingly aggressive...

    The Building and Burning of a Refugee Camp
  • 2020
    Pornotropic

    Pornotropic

    Pornotropic

    72020HD

    When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt....

    Pornotropic
  • 2022
    The Musicians' Green Book: An Enduring Legacy

    The Musicians' Green Book: An Enduring Legacy

    The Musicians' Green Book: An Enduring Legacy

    02022HD

    Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injustices of racial segregation while on the road. The...

    The Musicians' Green Book: An Enduring Legacy
  • 2016
    Mosques - Behind the Veil

    Mosques - Behind the Veil

    Mosques - Behind the Veil

    72016HD

    With the help of hidden camera, Danish TV 2 documents how a known Danish imam teaches Muslim women about Islam's violent rules of adultery.

    Mosques - Behind the Veil
  • 2017
    Chasing Trane

    Chasing Trane

    Chasing Trane

    7.32017HD

    An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose...

    Chasing Trane
  • 2017
    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

    7.72017HD

    Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...

    I Am Not Your Negro
  • 2019
    Look Away

    Look Away

    Look Away

    72019HD

    Europe, the rule of law and host countries? Look elsewhere denounces what is happening in many European cities by taking the example of Calais. From...

    Look Away
  • 1970
    The Rashomon Effect

    The Rashomon Effect

    The Rashomon Effect

    01970HD

    What happened when unarmed Black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson?

    The Rashomon Effect
  • 2018
    The Long Shadow

    The Long Shadow

    The Long Shadow

    82018HD

    When filmmaker and investigative journalist Frances Causey, a daughter of the South, set out to explore the continuing racial divisions in the US,...

    The Long Shadow