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The UK's foremost film director Sir Christopher Nolan and the leading cultural historian Sir Christopher Frayling unite to assess the impact of one of the biggest, boldest - and least celebrated - eras in film-making history.

Much has been made of the 'Movie Brats' - the group of filmmakers, including Francis Ford Coppola, and Steven Spielberg who revolutionised Hollywood in the 1960s and 70s with movies like The Godfather and Star Wars. Reams of highbrow film books have been devoted to the work of the German Expressionists and the French New Wave.

But for Christopher Nolan - the Academy Award-winning British director of many of the biggest blockbusters of the 21st century - there's an equally important group of homegrown filmmakers who haven't truly had their time in the spotlight.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hugh Hudson, Adrian Lyne, Alan Parker, Ridley and Tony Scott - the 'Adland Five' - breathed fresh life into Hollywood with films like Chariots of Fire, Flashdance, Bugsy Malone, Alien and Top Gun.

And unlike successful British filmmakers of previous eras, these five men didn't come to the movies via film school, or by working their way through the industry - but through directing 30 second television spots for beer, brandy and beef burgers.

Without the impact of the work of the Adland Five some decades earlier, Christopher Nolan's own Hollywood success - with films like Batman Begins, Inception and Oppenheimer - may not have seemed within reach. So why has this group never been taken seriously as a cultural force?

Across four conversations, Sir Christopher Nolan and Sir Christopher Frayling tell a new story of British cinema - about five innovators who transformed the movies, having already transformed advertising.

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