James Ferman Movies

A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.

Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.

A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's private lives, forcing them into an incredible bank robbery plot.

The highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE documentary, director Jake West and producer Marc Morris continue uncovering the shocking story of home entertainment post the 1984 Video Recordings Act. A time when Britain plunged...

The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

An army private is driven to murder when his wife falls in love with another man.

NSPCC social worker Margaret Ashdown is given the case of investigating into the Gosse family, when the young mother, Sheila, is unable to explain her baby's fractured skull at the hospital. She discovers the family live in poverty and ignorance, and have a tradition of instability.

When Len Shelton retires from a life of work in the coal mines, he turns to his first love - pigeons, which become a symbol of hope for him.

Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?

Peter Barkham hero-worships his distinguished father. However, this is threatened by the intrusion of events and people from his father's wartime past.

Edward G is nothing like a film star; his life has been ordinary - until now. But he's just had a shattering experience.

The uneasy relationship between elderly couple Thora Hird and Ron Moody and a cheerful stranger who moves in with them (Ronald Lacey). Written by Richard Harris (not the actor, but the future creator of Man in a Suitcase

Jimmy Nicholson returns from working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school. He went to the same public school himself and is disturbed to find that things have changed and the traditions by which he has always lived and been guided now seem to be obsolete.

A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.

A look at the last days of James Ferman's rule as Chief Censor of the British Board of Film Classification.

An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.