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Films about Children

Childhood has been an obsession for filmmakers since the birth of cinema.
While some of these films are suitable for young audiences, these are films about, rather than for, children. Many of the titles are taken from the features discovered in Mark Cousins’ wonderful A Story of Children and Film, with hard-to-see titles from around the world, including Crows, about a neglected girl who kidnaps another girl and acts as her surrogate mother, and charming Iranian fable The Boot. More recent works include the multi award-winning Beasts of the Southern Wild, for which Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest ever nominee for the best actress award, the moving tale from the Dardenne brothers, The Kid with a Bike, and The First Grader, the inspiring true story of a Kenyan man who returned to school aged 84.
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Haunters of the Deep Haunters of the Deep

Children's 1984 61 mins Director: Andrew Bogle

A ghostly boy returns from the grave to warn against reopening 'The Devil's Mine' in this spooky drama.

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The Sky-Bike The Sky-Bike

Children's 1967 59 mins Director: Charles Frend

Schoolboy Tom Smith flies a man-powered flying machine to win a handsome prize.

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Kadoyng Kadoyng

Children's 1972 60 mins Director: Ian Shand

It looks like the quaint village of Byway will be bulldozed to make way for a motorway – until alien outcast Kadoyng arrives from Outer Space to help.