Movies: Digital Works

Oral history project exploring the history of London's holiday campers. From the 1930s to the 1980s London’s workers increasingly visited holiday camps such as Pontins and Butlins, or run by trade unions and other social groups. It became a tradition...

Documentary charting the experiences of projectionists who work or worked in cinemas in London, exploring the skills and dedication required for this unique role, set against changes in technology, society, and entertainment....

Interviews edited and combined with archive and personal photos as well as archive footage to make a unique documentary film starring local people....

The story of the NHS....

There are many stories, funny, sad and poignant, and through these stories we get an insight into the history of the men and women who have driven the famous black cab....

This project is an oral history of London's dock workers focusing on the fascinating history of the people who worked on the docks of London from the 1930s up until the closing of the docks from the 1970s....

ANZACs in Westminster....

Made by Stockwell Primary School with support from digital:works with funding provided by the Heritage Lottery Fund....

Documentary made by members of the Boys Project and pupils from Cheltenham Ladies College as part of a Community Memories Project....

An oral history exploring the development of film projection and cinema in Kingston-on-Thames - from resident innovator Eadweard Muybridge through the heyday, decline, and re-emergence of cinema. Features interviews with historians, projectionists an...

An exploration of the Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate, by the people living on it....

The story of Hengest....

Golborne, West London, bordered by Ladbroke Grove, The Westway and the Grand Union Canal. An area that from the 1950s saw a unique struggle against poverty, greedy landlords, racism and political neglect to a musical backdrop of reggae, punk and carn...

This oral history documentary tells the story of early pioneering Panjabis who migrated to Southall in the 1950s and 1960s, their journey, settlement & struggles to establish themselves at work, in housing, in business and cultivate cultural activiti...

This film is an oral history of the people who worked in the three main Thames side breweries in West London. These breweries were major employers - their smoke and smells dominating this part of London for hundreds of years....

An Oral History of the Thames Lightermen....

A documentary film based on oral history interviews with former printers and journalists....

Made by Year 6 St Clement Danes Primary School with digital:works. Commissioned by Covent Garden Community Association and Westminster Archives....

A Social History of Textile Printing in Crayford....

A film made by Islington and Shoreditch Housing Association residents who talked to other ISHA residents about where they live and how they got there....