Price: £30 full / £24 members / £26 concessions / £20 under 25s
- Directed by: Adam Pepper
- Duration: 120min
- Certificate: UC
- Type: Create and Learn
110 years ago, cinema audiences sat down in the dark to watch The Battle of the Somme and saw, for the first time, the true horrors of war. Viewed largely as an anti-war film, the film turned the cinema into the home of countless stories of heroism, bravery, patriotism but also man’s inhumanity to man. It also gave rise to propaganda and manipulation, turning a camera lens carefully onto the ‘evils that men do’. Politics. Battle. Resistance. Victories. Defeats. Land, sea and air.
Join us for a four-week analysis of how the two World Wars have been portrayed on screen, both during and after those wars. What are the messages in these films? What hidden themes can we uncover and how does the varied international experience of the World Wars shape the stories put to celluloid? Films to be explored will include All Quiet on the Western Front, La Grande Illusion, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List, Downfall, 1917, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Son of Saul and Dunkirk.
Tutor: Adam Pepper
Duration: 4 weeks
When: Wednesday afternoons from Wed 5 August - 26 August 2026, 2pm–4pm
Price: £30 full / £24 members / £26 concessions / £20 under 25s (includes free tea & filter coffee on arrival in Screen 2)