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British cinema is celebrated around the world for its class, prestige, and sophistication. But there's an underside to British film, one in which alien robots prowl quaint rural towns, swinging beatniks become bloodthirsty psychos, and deranged old ladies commit murder with power drills.<br/><br/>From the starchy post-war escapism of the 1950s, through the growing permissiveness of the 1960s, on through the nihilistic anger of the 1970s, the decadent bombast of the 1980s, finally arriving in the post-modern 1990s, Cult Britannia takes you on a journey not just through film history, but social history as well. Britain's rapidly shifting culture is reflected most honestly through the cheap, scurrilous, sensationalist movies made to appeal to our most base urges.<br/><br/>Join veteran pop culture writer Dan Whitehead on this trip from black and white film reels to the era of DVD and CGI, revisit old classics and discovering bizarre new favourites along the way.