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  Conservative in style & content.
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  created by Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz & Tony Richardson
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  documentary style filming, but fictional. Challenged mainstream cinema and addressed issues around social class. Difficulties & conflict that exists in working class lives are at the centre of the narrative (kitchen sink drama)
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  Rejuvenation of genre through funding of British Realism cinema.
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  to make films more commercial, triumph over adversity'
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  A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.