A Focus on the Bandung File

+ extended intro with Tariq Ali and film programmer Matthew Barrington in conversation

The Bandung File was perhaps the most famous show to emerge from the multicultural movement. We look at some of its highlights.

  • Total running time 163min

Bandung File: Haiti

Channel 4 1986. Director Christopher Spencer. 36min. Digital

Bandung File: Too Many Questions

Channel 4 1985. Director David Cohen. 27min. Digital

Bandung File: Grunwick Strike

Channel 4 1987. Director Christopher Spencer. 38min. Digital

Bandung File: Smile Jamaica

UK 1988. Director Christopher Spencer. 52min. Digital

Bandung File drew on the political reporting of Race Today, which inspired mass action with a global non-aligned perspective, but replacing the magazine format with incisive reporting that spotlighted injustice across the globe. Too Many Questions focuses on racist border policing. Smile Jamaica and a profile of Haiti are detailed analyses captured in the aftermath of disasters. A later programme looks back at the Grunwick Strike.