Department of Culture
The following cultural works have been reviewed, assessed and formally approved by the Office of the Prime Minister. Citizens are encouraged to consume this selection. Deviation from this list is encouraged. The Prime Minster is happy to receive recommendations.
Cultural Filings
All | Film | TV | Music | Gig | Book
2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2007 | 2005 | 2003 | All years
2001: A Space Odyssey
FILM
- Creator
- Stanley Kubrick
- Year
- 1968
- Rating
- ★★★★★ (5/5)
- Date
- 31 December 2025
Rear Window
FILM
- Creator
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Year
- 1954
- Rating
- ★★★★ (4/5)
- Date
- 30 December 2025
Apocalypse Now
FILM
- Creator
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Year
- 1979
- Rating
- ★★★★★ (5/5)
- Date
- 29 December 2025
Wake Up Dead Man
FILM
- Creator
- Rian Johnson
- Year
- 2025
- Rating
- ★★★★ (4/5)
- Date
- 29 December 2025
Paddington
FILM
- Creator
- Paul King
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★★★½ (3.5/5)
- Date
- 24 December 2025
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
FILM
- Creator
- John Hughes
- Year
- 1987
- Rating
- ★★★ (3/5)
- Date
- 22 December 2025
Heretics
BOOK
- Creator
- G.K. Chesterton
- Year
- 1905
- Rating
- ★★★★ (4/5)
- Date
- 14 December 2025
The Matrix Reloaded
FILM
- Creator
- Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
- Year
- 2003
- Rating
- ★★★ (3/5)
- Date
- 13 December 2025
A House of Dynamite
FILM
- Creator
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Year
- 2025
- Rating
- ★★★★ (4/5)
- Date
- 7 December 2025
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
FILM
- Creator
- Matt Shakman
- Year
- 2025
- Rating
- ★★½ (2.5/5)
- Date
- 30 November 2025
The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way)
BOOK
- Creator
- Bill Drummond
- Year
- 1988
- Rating
- ★★★ (3/5)
- Date
- 15 November 2025
The Pilgrim's Progress
BOOK
- Creator
- John Bunyan
- Year
- 1678
- Rating
- ★★★ (3/5)
- Date
- 8 November 2025
HAIM
GIG- Venue
- Co-op Live
- Location
- Manchester — I quit tour tour
- Date
- 30 October 2025
Antony Szmierek
GIG- Venue
- Depot Mayfield
- Location
- Manchester
- Date
- 24 October 2025
Confidence Man
GIG- Venue
- Depot Mayfield
- Location
- Manchester
- Date
- 24 October 2025
Interstellar
FILM
- Creator
- Christopher Nolan
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★★★★★ (5/5)
- Date
- 13 October 2025
One Battle After Another
FILM
- Creator
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Year
- 2025
- Rating
- ★★★★★ (5/5)
- Date
- 7 October 2025
La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)
BOOK
- Creator
- Philip Pullman
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★★★★ (4/5)
- Date
- 25 September 2025
Pulp
GIG- Venue
- Budweiser Stage
- Location
- Toronto — Here Comes More: Live 2025 tour
- Date
- 16 September 2025
The Little Hours
FILM
- Creator
- Jeff Baena
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★★★★ (4/5)
- Date
- 13 September 2025
The Long Goodbye
FILM
- Creator
- Robert Altman
- Year
- 1973
- Rating
- ★★★★★ (5/5)
- Date
- 12 September 2025
A Complete Unknown
FILM
- Creator
- James Mangold
- Year
- 2024
- Rating
- ★★★½ (3.5/5)
- Date
- 5 September 2025
A Real Pain
FILM
- Creator
- Jesse Eisenberg
- Year
- 2024
- Rating
- ★★★★ (4/5)
- Date
- 5 September 2025
The Great Muppet Caper
FILM
- Creator
- Jim Henson
- Year
- 1981
- Rating
- ★★★★★ (5/5)
- Date
- 5 September 2025
Punch-Drunk Love
FILM
- Creator
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Year
- 2002
- Rating
- ★★★★ (4/5)
- Date
- 31 August 2025
When Harry Met Sally...
FILM
- Creator
- Rob Reiner
- Year
- 1989
- Rating
- ★★★★ (4/5)
- Date
- 24 August 2025
WALL·E
FILM
- Creator
- Andrew Stanton
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★★★★★ (5/5)
- Date
- 23 August 2025
The Maccabees
GIG- Venue
- O2 Victoria Warehouse
- Location
- Manchester — Comeback Tour tour
- Date
- 21 August 2025
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
FILM
- Creator
- Destin Daniel Cretton
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★★★ (3/5)
- Date
- 4 August 2025
Black Widow
FILM
- Creator
- Cate Shortland
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★★½ (2.5/5)
- Date
- 3 August 2025
Warfare
FILM
- Creator
- Ray Mendoza, Alex Garland
- Year
- 2025
- Rating
- ★★★★ (4/5)
- Date
- 19 July 2025
Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
BOOK
- Creator
- John le Carré
- Year
- 1961
- Rating
- ★★★★ (4/5)
- Date
- 9 July 2025
Only God Forgives
FILM
- Creator
- Nicolas Winding Refn
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★★ (2/5)
- Date
- 8 July 2025
- Venue
- Finsbury Park
- Location
- London
- Date
- 5 July 2025
Blondshell
GIG- Venue
- Finsbury Park
- Location
- London — If You Asked For a Tour tour
- Date
- 5 July 2025
Fontaines D.C.
GIG- Venue
- Finsbury Park
- Location
- London — Romance tour
- Date
- 5 July 2025
KNEECAP
GIG- Venue
- Finsbury Park
- Location
- London
- Date
- 5 July 2025
Adult DVD
GIG- Venue
- Worthy Farm
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 29 June 2025
Cymande
GIG- Venue
- West Holts
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 29 June 2025
Groove Armada
GIG- Venue
- Worthy Farm
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 29 June 2025
Joy Crookes
GIG- Venue
- Other Stage
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 29 June 2025
Marc Rebillet
GIG- Venue
- Worthy Farm
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 29 June 2025
Snapped Ankles
GIG- Venue
- Worthy Farm
- Location
- Pilton — Hard Times Furious Dancing 2025 tour
- Date
- 29 June 2025
St. Vincent
GIG- Venue
- Woodsies
- Location
- Pilton — All Born Screaming tour
- Date
- 29 June 2025
The Prodigy
GIG- Venue
- Other Stage
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 29 June 2025
Turnstile
GIG- Venue
- Other Stage
- Location
- Pilton — EUROPE / UNITED KINGDOM 2025 tour
- Date
- 29 June 2025
Wolf Alice
GIG- Venue
- Other Stage
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 29 June 2025
- Venue
- Other Stage
- Location
- Pilton — Cartoon Darkness World Tour tour
- Date
- 28 June 2025
Annie Mac
GIG- Venue
- Worthy Farm
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 28 June 2025
beabadoobee
GIG- Venue
- Other Stage
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 28 June 2025
Four Tet
GIG- Venue
- Worthy Farm
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 28 June 2025
- Venue
- Pyramid Stage
- Location
- Pilton — Love Earth World Tour tour
- Date
- 28 June 2025
Pulp
GIG- Venue
- Worthy Farm
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 28 June 2025
RAYE
GIG- Venue
- Pyramid Stage
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 28 June 2025
Weezer
GIG- Venue
- Other Stage
- Location
- Pilton — 2025 EU/UK Tour tour
- Date
- 28 June 2025
- Venue
- Pyramid Stage
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 27 June 2025
Biffy Clyro
GIG- Venue
- Pyramid Stage
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 27 June 2025
Fat Dog
GIG- Venue
- Woodsies
- Location
- Pilton — The WOOF. tour tour
- Date
- 27 June 2025
Franz Ferdinand
GIG- Venue
- Other Stage
- Location
- Pilton — The Human Fear tour
- Date
- 27 June 2025
Maribou State
GIG- Venue
- West Holts
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 27 June 2025
Supergrass
GIG- Venue
- Pyramid Stage
- Location
- Pilton — I Should Coco 30th Anniversary Tour tour
- Date
- 27 June 2025
Wet Leg
GIG- Venue
- Other Stage
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 27 June 2025
Dogshow
GIG- Venue
- Worthy Farm
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 26 June 2025
Elvana
GIG- Venue
- Worthy Farm
- Location
- Pilton — European Tour 2025 tour
- Date
- 26 June 2025
Gwenno
GIG- Venue
- Worthy Farm
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 26 June 2025
Joshua Idehen
GIG- Venue
- Worthy Farm
- Location
- Pilton
- Date
- 26 June 2025
Infinite Detail
BOOK
- Creator
- Tim Maughan
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★★ (2/5)
- Date
- 1 June 2025
Gwenno
GIG- Venue
- Peel Hall
- Location
- Salford
- Date
- 4 May 2025
Poetry for the Many: An Anthology
BOOK
- Creator
- Jeremy Corbyn
- Year
- 2024
- Rating
- ★★★ (3/5)
- Date
- 20 February 2025
Oh My God! It's The Church
GIG- Venue
- Band on the Wall
- Location
- Manchester
- Date
- 13 February 2025