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My Childhood

My Childhood (1972) - Where to Watch

Audience Score
69

Ready to press play on 'My Childhood' right from your couch? We’ve rounded up platforms and services with rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can find the right fit. As of now in the US, 'My Childhood' is available on BFI Player Amazon Channel to rent, buy, or stream with a subscription.

Here are some helpful extras before you press play about the BFI drama flick. My Childhood starring Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Karl Fieseler has a NR rating, a runtime of about 47 min. The release date of the movie is June 5th, 1972. The movie received a user score of 69/100 on TMDb, which is informed by reviews from 46 real users.

Need a quick rundown of the movie? Here's the plot: "The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village."

'My Childhood' Release Dates

Watch in Movie Theaters on June 5th, 1972

Bill Douglas Trilogy Movies

The Bill Douglas Trilogy recounts the harrowing experiences of a young boy, Jamie, growing up in crippling poverty: material and emotional impoverishment; harrowing privations at the hands of his paternal grandmother; incarceration in a children’s home; living in a hostel for down-and-outs.