Britain in a Day is a crowdsourced documentary film that consists of a series clips of footage shot by members of the public in Britain on 12 November 2011. Scott Free Films and the BBC produced the film, which was made in conjunction with YouTube.

The film is 90 minutes long and includes shots from 314 different perspectives out of the 11,526 submitted onto the video sharing website YouTube. The film was premiered in cinemas and broadcast on BBC2 on 11 June 2012 for a general audience, as part of the Cultural Olympiad.

Britain in a Day

Billed as a follow-up to the 2011 documentary film Life in a Day, the film was similarly executive produced by Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald. The film was directed by Morgan Matthews.

Britain in a Day

Cast & Crew

Saranne Bensusan

Jonathan Berry

Lee John Blackmore

Jack Keane

Lawrence Mallinson

Robin Whittaker

Graham Sutton

Andrea Dalla Costa

Jonathan Proud

Jack Arbuthnott

Billy Dosanjh

Ann Lynch

Martin Phipps

Peter Christelis

Yefri Zuñiga

Chris Hunter

Ben Mills

Hugo Adams

Danny Freemantle

Glenn Freemantle

Eilam Hoffman

Emilie O'Connor

Adam Scrivener

Ian Tapp

Craig Brewin

Archie Campbell

Bec Cranswick

Raquel Alvarez

Alex Ash

Corinne Borgeaud

Sean James

Thomas Carrell

Matt Curtis

Jemma Gander

Caroline Gerard

Iain Griffiths

Ross Howieson

Olivia Humphreys

Amy Jackson

Joseph Matthews

Helen Mullane

Mike Nicholls

Rebecca Pearson

Claire Salter

Johannes Schaff

Daniel Thomas

Richard Thorburn

Elliot Weaver

Zander Weaver

Chloe White

Callum McPherson

Babs van Gilst

Ernest Hope Stephenson

See also

Time capsule

References

2012 films

British documentary films

Crowdsourcing

2012 Cultural Olympiad

2010s English-language films

2010s British films

Britain in a Day