History, News and Reviews on the Best UK Movies of All Time

The Uk film industry exists for over a century. The first British film was developed on a celluloid film in Hyde Park in London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, who patented in 1890. But the first people that made a 35mm camera were Robert W. Paul and Brit Acres in 1895. They made the first Britsh Film – Incident at the Clovelly Cottage. Shortly after more British film companies started to demand development of new movies.

The Evolution of UK Cinema: Origins and Facts

Most of the earliest British films were inspired by everyday events, but in the early 20^th century we can notice the appearance of narrative shorts, mainly melodramatic and comedies mostly adaptations of Shakspeare dramas and Dikens novels.
In the first decade of the 20^th century, more than 30 movie studios were established in London and that allowed the British film industry to take a great part in the local movie market and abroad.
John Maxwell is the founder of British International Pictures in 1929. He collaborated with great names, such as Alfred Hitchcock. The movie industry represented fantasy movies, thrillers, and melodramas. Later, in time of the Second World War, the British movie industry started to use documentary techniques. In the 1960s the movie industry developed commercial feature movies. They started to make movies about the working class, erotic scenes and casual violence.
The 70s and 80s were very productive about horror movies, gangster dramas, and comedies. The British movie industries never stopped to wonder and to try new things, to become one of the best movie industries in the world and to make the best UK movies of all time. Since the early days of their existence, they were making a lot of collaborations with the U.S. studios, as it is today.