Amber Films Movies

  • 1988
    From Us To Me / Vom Wir zum Ich

    From Us To Me / Vom Wir zum Ich

    From Us To Me / Vom Wir zum Ich

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    This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions...

    From Us To Me / Vom Wir zum Ich
  • 1995
    Eden Valley

    Eden Valley

    Eden Valley

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    Set in the harness racing fraternity, this feature drama explores the conflict between urban and rural values and the relationship between an...

    Eden Valley
  • 1987
    T. Dan Smith: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Utopia

    T. Dan Smith: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Utopia

    T. Dan Smith: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Utopia

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    An experimental mix of thriller and documentary exploring the scandal centred on the one-time Newcastle Council Leader, aka The Mouth of the Tyne,...

    T. Dan Smith: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Utopia
  • 1989
    In Fading Light

    In Fading Light

    In Fading Light

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    A feature drama set in the declining fishing industry in North Shields, the film centres on the upheaval caused in a traditional fishing community by...

    In Fading Light
  • 1985
    Seacoal

    Seacoal

    Seacoal

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    Betty and her daughter Corinna are introduced to the harsh seacoaling way of life by Ray, an ex-seacoaler returning from a job with ICI. His offer of...

    Seacoal
  • 1997
    The Scar

    The Scar

    The Scar

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    Like many women active during the miners' strike, May Murton (Charlie Hardwick) has been left to clean up the mess. The closure of the pit, a failed...

    The Scar
  • 2001
    Like Father

    Like Father

    Like Father

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    The last pits have closed, the redundancy money has been spent and a family is in crisis. 70 year old pigeon man Arthur Elliott is losing his...

    Like Father
  • 1986
    The Box

    The Box

    The Box

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    Feelings of fear and isolation felt by an elderly woman navigating the new urban environments that had increasingly replaced traditional working...

    The Box
  • 1991
    Dream On

    Dream On

    Dream On

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    A magical realist feature drama exploring the lives of a women’s darts team on North Shields’ Meadow Well Estate.

    Dream On
  • 1978
    Laurie

    Laurie

    Laurie

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    Portrait of Laurie Wheatley, a former plasterer with a life long interest in photography, drawing, painting and sculpture. Follows the production of...

    Laurie
  • 1983
    News from Durham

    News from Durham

    News from Durham

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    Combines footage of the 100th Durham Miner's Gala held in 1983, with extracts from a miners' weekend school held two months later, to raise the...

    News from Durham
  • 1974
    Launch

    Launch

    Launch

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    Activities leading up to the launch of a large ship built at the Swan Hunter's Wallsend shipyard.

    Launch
  • 1979
    Tyne Lives

    Tyne Lives

    Tyne Lives

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    Tynesiders speak up - three talk to camera about their lives. Jim, a union activist; Betty, a housewife; and Arthur, a retired fish quay worker, talk...

    Tyne Lives
  • 1973
    The Jellyfish

    The Jellyfish

    The Jellyfish

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    The Jellyfish employs a variety of experimental approaches, combining stop-motion and pixilation techniques, freely mixing black and white...

    The Jellyfish
  • 2017
    Song For Billy

    Song For Billy

    Song For Billy

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    A meditation on a lost era and the regenerative power of the sea, Song For Billy grew out of the haunting photographs of Sirkka-Liisa...

    Song For Billy
  • 1991
    The Writing in the Sand

    The Writing in the Sand

    The Writing in the Sand

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    A richly lyrical documentary celebration of the vibrant beach life in the North East of England, constructed entirely out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's...

    The Writing in the Sand
  • 2010
    Today I'm With You

    Today I'm With You

    Today I'm With You

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    A documentary arising out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Byker Revisited portraits from the different communities that now live on the Byker Wall...

    Today I'm With You
  • 1983
    Byker

    Byker

    Byker

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    A partly dramatised documentary built around Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photographs of the Newcastle terraced community, demolished to make way...

    Byker
  • 1979
    Quayside

    Quayside

    Quayside

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    A documentation of the eponymous area of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, then under threat of redevelopment.

    Quayside
  • 1984
    Beyond and Behind the Vote

    Beyond and Behind the Vote

    Beyond and Behind the Vote

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    Documentation of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election, which saw Tony Benn returned to parliament, and the early days of the Miners’ Strike which...

    Beyond and Behind the Vote