Amber Films

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

Release : 1987.01.01
Popularity : 4.841

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

Release : 1988.11.29
Popularity : 1.751

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

Release : 1995.03.17
Popularity : 1.334

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...

Release : 1989.01.01
Popularity : 1.26

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

Release : 1991.11.13
Popularity : 0.923

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

Release : 1991.04.16
Popularity : 0.855

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...

Release : 2001.06.15
Popularity : 0.757

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...

Release : 1997.01.01
Popularity : 0.506

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...

Release : 2017.01.01
Popularity : 0.406

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

Release : 1984.07.04
Popularity : 0.386

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...

Release : 1985.01.01
Popularity : 0.375

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

Release : 1986.01.01
Popularity : 0.365

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

Release : 1983.01.01
Popularity : 0.33

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...

Release : 1983.01.01
Popularity : 0.287

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

Release : 1979.01.01
Popularity : 0.106

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

Release : 1973.06.05
Popularity : 0.093