BFI
Bill Douglas Trilogy
My Childhood
The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.
- Original title
- My Childhood
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB
- Budget
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- Revenue
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Stephen Archibald
Jamie
Hughie Restorick
Tommy
Jean Taylor Smith
Grandmother
Bernard McKenna
Tommy's father
Paul Kermack
Jamie's father
Helena Gloag
Father's mother
Eileen McCallum
Nurse
Bill Douglas
Director
Bill Douglas
Writer
Angie Lemaire
City of God
Saving Private Ryan
American Beauty
Mirror
Persepolis
Downfall
Aparajito
The Breakfast Club
Boyz n the Hood
Billy Elliot
The Last Emperor
Letters from Iwo Jima
Almost Famous
The Old Gun
Cairn
Driving Miss Daisy
Closely Watched Trains
12 Mighty Orphans
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
American Graffiti
Bambi
The Tin Drum
Lassie Come Home
She Paradise
Sweet Thing
Nobody Loves Kay
Our Ladies
Unexpected Journey
I Got Life!
Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
Millimeterle
The Bug Killer
Greta
Hiraeth
August
Sadie
7 Miles Out
Right Below The Neck
Wonder
The Plague Dogs
Secrets & Lies
Gaslight
Sounder
Finding Neverland
Macbeth
The Long Day Closes
Ratcatcher
Fluke
Oranges and Sunshine
A Home of Our Own
Greyfriars Bobby
Hope and Glory
Goodnight, Mister Tom
A Woman's Face
King of the Hill
The Sundowners
The Railway Children
Radium Girls
Lord of the Flies
Small Things Like These
Evelyn
The Secret Garden
Under Capricorn
Jun 5, 1972
