The filmography reveals many different insights into more than a century of British film since the release of the first production, Rob Roy, in 1911.
The filmography, which analyses more than 10,000 films and 250,000 cast and crew members, reveals that less than 1% of films made between 1913 and 2017 had a majority female crew and only 7% since 2000; only 4.5% of all films have been directed by a woman; and the most popular word in British film titles is “man”, appearing 211 times. “Woman” appears 71 times.
“These are the kind of tangents the website can help take you on – data-driven journeys through British film history,” said McConnachie.
But according to an exhaustive new survey of film history, the industry’s historically lopsided gender balance has barely changed.