Ever wondered where shows like Shameless get their gritty inspiration? Darkly comedic kitchen-sink realism began in the late 1950s with a group of angry young film-makers who drew on their own northern, distinctly non-middle-class experiences. The result was a handful of modern classics that defined a generation. Don't miss Look Back In Anger, Tony Richardson's powerful decimation of class war, Lindsay Anderson's seminal This Sporting Life, starring a searingly good Richard Harris as a tough local Yorkshire miner turned local celebrity and Bryan Forbes's touching The L-Shaped Room about a defiant single pregnant woman in London.