Pressure Blu-ray

'Pressure' Director: Horace Ové (1975) BFI Blu-ray | 4K restoration 

A bright school leaver and son of West Indian immigrants finds himself torn between his parents' church-going conformity and his brother's Black Power militancy.

A groundbreaking and authentic exploration of the anxieties of an emerging second-generation of West Indians in Britain, with themes of police corruption, discrimination and employment inequality on an individual and institutional level.

With a screenplay written by Horace Ové and fellow Trinidadian author Sam Selvon.

Special features include:

• Audio commentary with producer Robert Buckler and actor Herbert Norville, moderated by Marc David Jacobs
• Baldwin's Nigger (1969, 45 mins): Ové's striking portrait of the writer James Baldwin
• Horace Ové on Pressure (2005, 36 mins)
• Pressure Q&A (2023, 17 mins): academic Clive Nwonka, actor Herbert Norville, producer Annabelle Alcazar, writer Caryl Phillips and filmmaker Rhea Storr discuss Pressure
• Horace Ové: Reflecting the People - A Career Retrospective (2023, 58 mins): producers Annabelle Alcazar, Peter Ansorge, Tara Prem and Marcus Ryder discuss the life, work and legacy of Horace Ové
• Ten Bob in Winter (1963, 12 mins): Lloyd Rekord's classic of Black British cinema about social dynamics
• Jemima + Johnny (1966, 30 mins): Lionel Ngakane's short film about the friendship between a white boy and a black girl