Homes for Heroes – documentary review
July 12th, 2010
This documentary first broadcast by the BBC in 2005 is a compilation of film clips linked together by a commentary from architectural critics and is an attempt to put together a coherent account of the events following the Second World War when the country was in great need of new housing.
The film lasts one hour and what follows is a list of the main subject headings with reference to the films from which the clips are taken. The film shares many of its clips with High Rise Dreams reviewed earlier in this blog, though that film being half the length.
Homes for heroes opens with a jaunty jazz tune and Oliver Cox, one of the LCC architects of the 1950s saying that “there was a very heady feeling at the time, that we were building a new Britain”.