Before he went on to Hollywood fame, film director John Boorman (Deliverance, Excalibur, Point Blank) worked at BBC Bristol where he made many films about the city.

Last year South West Silents showed his six-part series about Bristol, The Newcomers, to a sold out audience. We continue our celebrations of his Bristol work by screening five documentaries and one fictional film.

Almost all are set in Bristol and the West of England. None of these titles have been seen for decades, and this is a very rare chance to see them for a long time to come. And we are showing them on Bristol's biggest screen.

The event will be showing:
The Globe Shrinkers about early work on supersonic flight/ Concorde at Filton (transmitted 3 April 1963).

Let’s Imagine: Being an art student about the West of England Art College (21 June 1963).

Citizen 63: Barry Langford about an entrepreneur and later BBC producer (28 August 1963).

Citizen 63: Richard Callicot about the work of a police inspector at Trinity Road Police Station, Bristol (4 September 1963).

Citizen 63: Marion Knight about a rebellious teenager in Portsea (11 September 1963).

The Quarry: Portrait Of A Man As A Paralysed Artist (27 February 1966) set partly in Bristol.

Boorman and his talented team made brilliant television. This is a rare chance to see some of the highlights of his work in Bristol.

With thanks to the BFI National Archive and the BBC Archive.