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    Jill Craigie (born Noreen Jean Craigie; 7 March 1911 [1] – 13 December 1999) [2] was a British documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and feminist. She was one of Britain's earliest female documentary makers. [3]

  2. Jul 2, 2021 · Jill Craigie: the woman who did. The British filmmaker’s long marriage to Michael Foot has overshadowed her courageous, pioneering career in documentary film.

  3. Jul 14, 2021 · The Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer project is using a breadth of archival sources to re-evaluate Craigie’s work as a filmmaker and to explore a broader view of her career as a writer, media...

  4. Dec 15, 1999 · THE FILM-MAKER and author Jill Craigie, who was married to the former Labour leader Michael Foot, has died aged 85, it was announced yesterday. Tony Blair led the tributes to Ms Craigie, who...

  5. Jill Craigie (1911-1999) was one of Britain's earliest women documentary makers, with a feminist and socialist vision. She made films such as Out of Chaos, The Way We Live, To Be Woman and Blue Scar, and also wrote and produced for radio and TV.

  6. Jill Craigie (1911 – 99) was one of the first women to direct documentaries in the UK. Working outside the British Documentary Movement in the 1940s and early 50s, her films such as To Be Woman (1951), on equal pay, and Out of Chaos (1944), the first film about artists at work, featuring Henry Moore and Paul Nash, tackled new subjects for the ...

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  8. Learn about Jill Craigie, one of the first women to make documentaries in the UK, and her feminist and socialist films. Explore her career, activism, and legacy through this three-year research project and website.