Craigie, Jill

▪ 2000

      British motion picture director who was a pioneer in British documentary filmmaking in the 1940s as well as a noted feminist historian, particularly of the early suffragist movement; her films included Out of Chaos, an exploration of modern art and artists; The Way We Live, a study of ordinary life in Plymouth as the English city was rebuilt following heavy World War II bombing; Blue Scar, a neorealistic film on life in a Welsh mining village; To Be a Woman, on the question of equal pay in postwar England; and Two Hours from London, a 1995 documentary about former Yugoslavia. In 1949 Craigie married Michael Foot, whose leading role in the left wing of the Labour Party, especially during his tumultuous years (1980–83) as leader of the opposition, brought Craigie to the forefront of British socialist politics (b. March 7, 1914, London, Eng.—d. Dec. 13, 1999, London).

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