While Sir Sean Connery’s James Bond romanticised the world of Cold War espionage, Sir Michael Caine’s spy films presented a more grounded and accurate portrayal of the intelligence services.

The revolution that began in 1967 with films such as Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate gained further momentum in 1969 with the emergence of the “Born to Be Wild” generation bent on further ...

Makers of film and high-end TV spent almost A$10bn in the country last year, and British cinema has brought us films as diverse as First World War epic 1917 and science fiction two-hander Gravity ...