London: The Modern Babylon 2012 Movie

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown. More details

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Keith Allen Michael Gambon Steve Jones Bill Nighy

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documentary history music london stock market f word london council social cleansing port of london authority reference to birmingham west midlands england rapper breaking a shop window looting theft billy club destroying property setting a car on fire revenge building on fire reference to nike sneakers civil disobedience tent living in a tent reference to a didgeridoo tent city fish as food selling fish time lapse photography religion bench scene during closing credits chimpanzee epilogue reference to charles dickens mob fast motion scene year 1991 reference to berlin germany throwing a rock through a window millennium reference to an american banker reference to a french banker reference to a somalian reference to a columbian economy animated car butcher shopkeeper reference to nigeria reference to ghana reference to turkey the country reference to polish reference to an atheist chicken as food chicken shop bookie reference to god pigeon puppet elephant parade float reference to a russian reference to an african watching a movie outdoors market trader diversity stock market reference to an asian reference to the caribbean reference to a pakistani reference to an afghanistani boy girl school classroom school uniform 2012 london olympic games year 2005 babylon jeweled skull waitress reference to russia praying class differences tenement wealth poverty housing fascism year 1936 battle of cable street london looking out a window jewish jew year 1937 year 1938 cultural differences brixton london dancer dancing listening to a radio radio news evacuation air raid gas mask bombing explosion fire singer singing song drink drinking sex drunkenness war ruins death london blitz end of world war two dancing in the streets queuing conformity defecation slur umbrella rain street performer colonization british royal air force british commonwealth cricket the game male prostitute arrest homelessness stoned ship dock shipping industry wrecking ball year 1980 water skier guy fawkes day year 1974 ira bombing house of parliament power outage dustman year 1975 rubbish strike reference to marc bolan punk rock music facial makeup repeated scene slum microphone riot snow poem unemployment office looking for a job laundromat mohawk haircut performnce artist performance art street fight skinhead surveillance camera reference to big brother money cocaine snorting cocaine bowler hat finance reference to mcdonald's restaurant pile driver yuppie isle of dogs london london skyline warehouse reference to trinidad tobago race relations racism prejudice asian indian anglo pub fog factory air pollution artist black and white segues into color color segues into black and white soho london gay poet drug use jazz music nightclub musician prostitute west indies name calling education fame ambition band teddy boy street gang violence white defence league salsa music immigration national socialist iberian irish sadness loneliness laborer ireland property development construction site demolishing a building funeral of winston churchill working class rock 'n' roll twist the dance london england immigrant split screen slow motion scene scene during opening credits subway archive footage montage voice over narration map british empire british royalty street life year 1905 child transportation urban setting edwardian era victorian era women's rights british politics suffragette year 1911 demonstration protest world war one world war two war veteran one legged man artificial leg tower bridge london marriage year 1925 double decker bus london bobby east end london shipyard africana anglo foreigner limehouse london inner title card anglo chinese beach playboy bunny camera photography british flag mini skirt barnaby street london flower child hammer and sickle cigarette smoking guitar pop culture remodeling apartment guitarist middle class international poetry incarnation reverse footage nudity anarchy female nudity bare breasts bikini reference to bob dylan hippie squatter vietnam war anti war demonstration sunglasses police revolution bare chested male nun swastika airplane year 1971 turban sikh cooking asian anglo southall london traffic dual identity bangladeshi muslim hindu street market siege of sidney street elephant horse and carriage child labor barefoot music hall force feeding female female kiss newsreel footage overhead camera shot river thames teenager piccadilly circus london year 1965 london bridge elderly woman big ben london

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