- HD 1080
- Runtime: 47m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: Bill Douglas
- Stars: Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Karl Fieseler, Bernard McKenna
- keywords: scotland, coming of age, autobiographical, child neglect, animal cruelty, 1940s
- Production_studio: BFI
- The My Childhood is featured in the top rankings of 1972
- #42 in Top Drama Movies of 1972
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.