Robert Paynter Movies

A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher.

This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours...

Documentary about the anti-nuclear demonstration staged in Trafalgar Square on 17 September 1961.

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.

Politically passionate and one of the first working class reporters at the BBC, Jack Ashley wanted to show the suffering caused by high unemployment...

This short, evocative account of the poet's life is set among contemporary scenes of the people of south-west Scotland as they grow from children to...

A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.