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It Happened Here review by A customer from Norwich

Germany and England - Union for Strength 27 April 2010
...re not expecting. IF YOU WATCH THIS, YOU MUST READ 'How It Happened Here' by Kevin Brownlow, which tells the story of how the film was critically received upon release and... Read customer review

Buster Keaton - A Hard Act To Follow review by from Croydon, England

Quiet, genius at work 5 February 2006
...for Thames TV in 1987, co-directed by the leading British silent film historian Kevin Brownlow. Keaton’s life story splits reasonably neatly into three phases – the early yea... Read customer review

Unknown Chaplin review by from Croydon, England

The hard work to make it look effortless 2 July 2006
...This exemplary three-part documentary, made by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, is a must for anyone interested in Chaplin, silent comedy, or the history of cinema. Instead of ... Read customer review

Kevin Brownlow - filmography

Unknown Chaplin (1983)
Starring: James Mason, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman
Director: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
Certificate:
This three-part programme gives an extraordinary insight into many aspects of Chaplin's dazzing career: his early working methods, the making of famous films such as City Lights and Modern Times and the movies he made for fun. They include the first interviews with two of Chaplin's most enigmatic ..read more »

63% from 53 members
Not available for rental

Winstanley on DVD (1975)
Starring: Miles Halliwell, Jerome Willis, Terry Higgins
Director: Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
Certificate:
April 1, 1649. St. Georges Hill. Surrey England. A Reformation-Era religious sect called the Diggers sets out to form a commune and till the soil on "common land," which permits grazing--but not settlement and cultivation. Led by Gerard Winstanley, theirs is a nonviolent action to reclaim land for ..read more »

62% from 284 members

Winstanley - Blu-ray (1975)
Starring: Miles Halliwell, Jerome Willis, Terry Higgins
Director: Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
Certificate:
A mysterious, historically accurate film, set in 1649, charting the progress of a group of impoverished men and women who form a settlement on St George's Hill in Surrey. The vision of Gerrard Winstanley is of people living together in peace as equals.

52% from 54 members

Millay at Steepletop (1968)
Starring: Norma Millay, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Director: Kevin Brownlow
Certificate:
Beautiful and liberated, Edna St. Vincent Millay was a literary icon of the jazz age and the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. This loving tribute to her was filmed on her upstate New York farm, and sets reading of her work to visions of the land around her home. Also included ..read more »

15% from 2 members
Currently unavailable

It Happened Here (1965)
Starring: Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Bart Allison
Director: Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
Certificate:
Chilling speculation of what a defeated Britain would be like under Nazi rule. An apolitical nurse, deluded by the optimism that lets her survive, finds that evil lives in the most unassuming corners of the human heart.

58% from 867 members
Not currently released

Buster Keaton - A Hard Act To Follow
Starring: Buster Keaton
Director: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
Certificate:
In the space of ten years Buster Keaton made his way to becoming one of the Silent era's most remarkable comedians only to fall from grace when his now-acknowledged classic, The General, bombed at the box office and he found himself reduced to writing gags for the Marx Brothers and forcibly ..read more »

75% from 124 members
Not available for rental

Kevin Brownlow facts

5 most recent films

Unknown Chaplin - 3.0 stars
Winstanley - 3.0 stars
Winstanley - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Millay at Steepletop - 1.0 stars
It Happened Here - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Buster Keaton - A Hard Act To Follow - 4.0 stars
Unknown Chaplin - 3.0 stars
Winstanley - 3.0 stars
It Happened Here - 3.0 stars
Winstanley - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Millay at Steepletop - 1.0 stars
Winstanley - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
It Happened Here - 3.0 stars
Winstanley - 3.0 stars
Unknown Chaplin - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

David Bramley - 2 times - show films
Phil Oliver - 2 times - show films
Terry Higgins - 2 times - show films
Jerome Willis - 2 times - show films
Miles Halliwell - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Andrew Mollo - 3 times - show films
David Gill - 2 times - show films