Employees Leaving North Eastern Engine Works, Gateshead (1901)

Coal touched all our lives, as this issue of the cinemagazine demonstrates with items on a miner's wife turned mayor, a Coal Board chess team and more.

This poetic Free Cinema documentary, filmed near Manchester, reflects on the changing world of the engineman.

Countless men, women and children spill out on to the screen from "The Plant" at the heart of the Yorkshire railway town.

Is Chris Tarrant up to shovelling a ton and a half of coal to keep the fire burning and the steam up between Bridgnorth and Bewdley?

With the horrific effects of gas warfare still fresh in the memory, rubberised men – like extras from a 1950s British sci fi movie – prepare for more, with 1940s attention to detail.

Come and see Rocket 150, and visit a selection of railway locations, past and preserved.

Experience the spectacle of landscape gardening on a grand scale in Gateshead.

Witness a world record-beating race on home ground by Gateshead’s local sporting hero, Brendan Foster.

Interview with the blacklisted American entertainer and activist Eartha Kitt who purred her way to success.

The toe-dipping delights and tranquillity of the Northumbrian Riviera and beyond.

A double, double take on the art of making amateur movies in a 50th anniversary celebration for the Newcastle and District ACA.

The fast track to an ambitious new Metro system that ends commuter misery on Tyneside in the 80s.

A trans high-schooler is tempted by toxic masculinity in the boys’ bathroom.

Two years in the life of TRUK United FC, a beacon for positive change and trans inclusivity in football.

A Chinese teenager dreams of living with her cool aunt in New York, until tensions boil over during a crab dinner.

A child struggling with their identity and a charismatic fox (voiced by Sir Ian McKellen) learn to embrace their differences in this heart warming stop-motion animation.

A Maori and a Kiwi teen buddy up to raid their mum’s wardrobe and pucker their lips with red.

‘I pronounce you wife and wife.’ A young couple design their perfect wedding online, but then mum dials in.