Free Cinema

Free cinema was a documentry film that emergered in england during the 1950's. Free cinema was the term originally given to six programmes which were shown at the national film theatre between 1956 and 1959. Three of the six programmes were put together by a group of young film makers and critics.The three other programmes introduced the work of foreign filmmakers, including Roman Polanski, Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut.

Free cinema was created due to pargmatic reasons, a group of young film makers throught it was to hard to showcase there work, so they joined there films togeather to create programmes which would be shown at the national film theatre in london. The term free cinema came about because the film makers believed that the term is a reference to the films having been made free from the pressures of the box-office or the demands of propaganda. free cinema and its followers stood for a new attitude to filmmaking, rejecting the orthodox and conservatism of both the mainstream British cinema and the dominant documentary tradition initiated by John Grierson in the 1930s.