Free Cinema consisted of a group of young film-makers who decided to rebel against the stifling conformity of British cinema in the late fifties and to make their own films outside the confines of 'the system'. This 50th-anniversary compilation of short films about British working class life shows directors expressing personal viewpoints without obligation to subscribe to the technical or social conventions imposed on commercial film-making.

Collective title from DVD surface.

DVD all-zone NTSC.

disc 1. Free cinema 1. O Dreamland (12 min.) / director, Linday Anderson. Momma don't allow (22 min.) / directors, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson. Together (49 min.) / director, Lorenza Mazzetti, assisted by Denis Horne. Free cinema 3. Wakefield express (30 min.) / director, Lindsay Anderson. Nice time (17 min.) / directors, Claude Goretta, Alain Tanner. The singing street (30 min.) / directors, N. McIsaac, J.T.R. Ritchie, R. Townsend. Every day except Christmas (39 min.) / director, Lindsay Anderson disc 2. Free cinema 6. Refuge England (27 min.) / director, Robert Vas. Enginemen (17 min.) / director, Michael Grigsby. We are the Lambeth boys (49 min.) / director, Karel Reisz. Food for a blush (30 min.) / director, Elizabeth Russell

disc 3. Beyond free cinema. One potato two potato (21 min.) / director, Leslie Daiken. March to Aldermason (33 min.) The vanishing street (19 min.) / director, Robert Vas. Tomorrow's Saturday (17 min.) / director, Michael Grigsby. Gala day (25 min.) / director, John Irvin. Small is beautiful : the story of the Free Cinema films told by their makers.