History on Film: Flame in the Streets (1961)
History on Film: Flame in the Streets (1961)
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Join us for a FREE, rare screening of the BAFTA-nominated British cinema classic featuring Earl Cameron, John Mills and Johnny Sekka, remade in the US as Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? starring Sidney Poitier.
In the run up to a Guy Fawkes’ night in early 1960s Britain, a progressive trade union leader passionately fights racial discrimination in his workplace, but is less stridently antiracist when his daughter brings home her Jamaican boyfriend.
With racist rioting one of the film's major subplots, alongside workplace discrimination, education, trade union politics, housing discrimination, and many facets of UK racism at the time, revisiting Flame in the Streets’ depiction (rather than necessarily a true glimpse) of the environment many Windrush migrants entered, offers an opportunity to reflect on the echoes and recurrences in our own time.
Come for the film, stay for the conversation.
FREE ENTRY, registration is essential.
Organiser
History on Film is a series of free monthly film screenings run by the history department at Goldsmiths. Join us for great films from and/or about historical moments, expert panelists, and lively discussions accompanied by free popcorn.
Every other month the History on Film screening is Black history themed. The MA in Black British History at Goldsmiths is the first taught MA programme in the UK to focus exclusively on the histories of peoples of African origin and descent.
Applications are now open for for September 2025 entry. The early bird deadline for applications is 28 February.
Venue
Screening Room LG01 Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths College, SE14 6NW London
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