These WWII films from directors Alberto Cavalcanti, Guy Hamilton, Michael Anderson, Leslie Norman and J. Lee Thomson are excellent studies in history, filmmaking, and wartime propaganda.
Silent filmmaking was only one element of a much wider feminist movement of various forms, from the flapper to the suffragette to the birth control advocate to the bohemian female writer and political activist.
Pioneers is an essential gathering of early film treasures that help redefine an era of glorious creativity by women filmmakers and often surprising access to means of production.
J. B. Priestley's sense of social conscience permeates every frame of They Came to a City.
