Britain in a Day (2012)

Directed by

Morgan Matthews

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary is made from video clips submitted by people across Britain on a single day. It shows ordinary moments from many different lives, edited together into a portrait of the country.

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What happens

Britain in a Day is a crowdsourced documentary film that consists of a series clips of footage shot by members of the public in Britain on 12 November 2011. Scott Free Films and the BBC produced the film, which was made in conjunction with YouTube. The film is 90 minutes long and includes shots from 314 different perspectives out of the 11,526 submitted onto the video sharing website YouTube. The film was premiered in cinemas and broadcast on BBC2 on 11 June 2012 for a general audience, as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Billed as a follow-up to the 2011 documentary film Life in a Day, the film was similarly executive produced by Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald. The film was directed by Morgan Matthews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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