The BFI has compiled for the first time, the definitive collection of films from the 1950s" Free Cinema movement. Free Cinema not only re-invented British documentary making, but this highly influential period in the country"s cinema history was the precursor for the better known British New Wave of social-realist films in the late 1950s and early 1960s...This collection contains:* O Dreamland (dir. Lindsay Anderson, UK, 1953, 12 mins)* Momma Don"t Allow ( dir. Karel Reisz/Tony Richardson, UK, 1956, 22 mins)* Together (dir. Lorenza Mazzetti, UK, 1956, 52 mins)* Wakefield Express (dir. Lindsay Anderson, UK, 1952, 30 mins)* Nice Time (dir. Alain Tanner/Claude Goretta, UK, 1957, 17 mins)* The Singing Street (dir. Norton Park Group/Nigel McIsaac, UK, 1952, 18 mins)* Everyday Except Christmas (dir. Lindsay Anderson, UK, 1957, 40 mins)* Refuge England (dir. Robert Vas, UK, 1959, 27 mins)* Enginemen (dir. Michael Grigsby, UK, 1959, 21mins)* We Are the Lambeth Boys (dir. Karel Reisz, UK, 1959, 52 mins)* Food for a Blush (dir. Elizabeth Russell, UK, 1959, 30 mins)* One Potato Two Potato (dir. Leslie Daiken, UK, 1957, 21 mins)* March to Aldermaston (anonymous, UK, 1959, 33 mins)* The Vanishing Street (dir. Robert Vas, UK, 1962, 18 mins)* Tomorrow"s Saturday (dir. Michael Grigsby, UK, 1962, 18 mins)* Gala Day (dir. John Irvin, UK, 1963, 26 mins)...Extras* Small Is Beautiful: The story of the Free Cinema films told by their makers (2006), an exclusive 43-minute film consisting of specially commissioned i nterviews with Free Cinema filmmakers Lorenza Mazzetti, Walter Lassally, Alain Tanner and Michael Grigsby; film extracts and previously unseen photographs* A specially curated collection of five rarely seen short films from the late 1950s/early 1960s, made in the spirit of the Free Cinema movement* 40-page, fully illustrated booklet including a general introduction.