Strike! The Village That Fought Back (2024)
The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to walk out and the last to go back to work during the miners' strike. ...
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Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist. He was President of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1982 to 2002. Joining the NUM at the age of nineteen in 1957, he became one of its leading activists in the late 1960s.
The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to walk out and the last to go back to work during the miners' strike. ...
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This film sketches a very personal and decidedly political portrait of the Iron Lady who left the greatest mark on the UK, alongside Queen Elizabeth II. Archives and interviews are enriched by songs from this period that really help to understand the socia ...
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On the 5th of March 1985, a crowd gathered in a South Yorkshire pit village to watch a sight none of them had seen in a year. The villagers, many of them in tears, cheered and clapped as the men of Grimethorpe Colliery marched back to work accompanied by t ...
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Part of BFI collection "The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes. ...
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Combines footage of the 100th Durham Miner's Gala held in 1983, with extracts from a miners' weekend school held two months later, to raise the central issues that were of concern to the mineworkers' union during the lead up to the national strike of 1984. ...
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Brian Glover meets up with locals like Arthur Scargill as he guides us round his home town. ...
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