Michael Grigsby Movies

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

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

When teacher Tony Scannell decides he wants to be ordained as a Catholic Priest his decision has wide ranging effects on his family and loved ones.

A large family in London's East End is celebrating a birthday party. Children and grandchildren from this extensive family have come to the party from all over England. At the party the family members talk about hope and dreams for their children. The past and present lives of various relatives are...

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

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

State of the Nation documentary concerning 1980s Britain.

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

Director Michael Grigsby's portrait of a Britain largely forgotten in the 1990s - the entertainers in social clubs, and the people they entertain.

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

For the Eskimos of Pond Inlet - a new village in North Baffin Island in which they have been settled by the Canadian Government – the life of the semi-nomadic hunter has given way to that of wage-labourer, in what appears as a pre-fabricated 'township'. Although hunting provides an important...

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....