Michael Foot
Birthday: 1913-07-23
Place of Birth: Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Biography: Michael Foot was a British politician and served as the leader of the Labour Party from 1980-1983. He was a pacifist and a supporter of CND who studied philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford. As a documentary screenwriter for the war effort in the 1940s, he worked alongside Frank Owen under the joint pseudonym of Michael Frank and was known for Young Veteran (1940), Yellow Caesar (1941). He was married to documentary filmmaker Jill Craigie.
Movies
Labour's Old Romantic
A profile of Michael Foot, the former leader of the Labour Party, which included footage of him on t...
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Cabinet Confidential
A revealing one-off documentary that provides an inside view of how Tony Blair and former prime mini...
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From Beaconsfield to Baghdad
Parliamentary correspondent Robert Orchard reviews the highs and lows of Tony Blair's tumultuous rel...
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Young Veteran
The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the Briti...
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Two Hours from London
Documentary about the outbreak of the war in former Yugoslavia that calls on the leaders of Europe t...
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Independent Miss Craigie
Some time after her death, film director Jill Craigie (1911- 99), re-opens an old suitcase, promptin...
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Rough Justice
Portrait of a fractious Welsh village near Merthyr Tydfil. Life in the valley isn't what it was, the...
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In Search of Tony Blair
Ten years after he stepped to power as Labour leader, Tony Blair remains a national enigma. His pers...
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