Life Story of David Lloyd George

Referred to by many film historians as ‘the find of the century’, the 1918 biopic ‘The Life Story of David Lloyd George’ is a unique item in the history of not just British cinema but World cinema. Directed by Maurice Elvey, this 152-minute, 35mm film is thought to be the first feature length biopic of a contemporary living politician.

Filmed during the last months of WW1, and following a script by Sir Sydney Low, the film travels to locations associated with Lloyd George from his birthplace in Manchester, Llanystymdwy and Porthmadoc where he spent his childhood, schooldays and early career, a remarkable torchlight procession through the streets of Caernarfon, a re-creation of the 1908 Birmingham riots with over 10,000 extras, fascinating footage of a guided tour of a WW1 munitions factory to Westminster and eventually Downing Street.

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