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  1. Dole Not Coal: The 1984 Miners’ Strike: The Strikers’ Story

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

    This film pays testimony to the people and politicians supporting the strike, together with the cause and effect to the striking miners in a dispute unimaginable in modern Britain, but one that has seemingly...

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  2. A J Cook, Miners’ Leader 1926 (1984 Video)

    Director
    Philip Priestly
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20. min.

    Cook was national secretary of the Miners’ Federation in 1926. He is remembered by historian Paul Davies, Will Paynter, Dennis Skinner and Arthur Scargill. Comments on the General Strike are juxtaposed...

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  3. Miners’ Film, The (1974)

    Subject
    Film studies; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 49 minutes), £8.00

    Documents the industrial action taken by miners in the winter of 1973-4 which helped to bring down Edward Heath’s Tory government. The strike is seen as part of the successful opposition against the...

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  4. Learning Lessons (3 Parts) (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 16 min.

    Miners look back at the 1984-85 strike and discuss what they thimk were its strengths and weaknesses. Part 1 is a debate on mass picketing. Part 2 concerns the way the strike ended and assesses the mood in...

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  5. Harlan County (1976)

    Director
    Barbara Kopple
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £14.99

    A re-release on DVD of one of the seminal films of the US documentary movement. Barbara Kopple’s 1976 Oscar winner profiles a miners’ strike in Kentucky that saw a corporation playing hardball against...

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  6. Rumours at the Miners’ Fortnight (1983 Video)

    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    South Wales miners and their families on their annual holiday in Trecco Bay discuss their history, the General Election of 1983, the forecast pit closures, the Falklands War, and the future and past of South...

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  7. English Civil War - Part II, The (2002 Audio)

    Subject
    Art; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Audio (CD), £19.95

    A book of essays on the 1984-85 miners’ strike and the 2001 re-enactment of the stand-off in Orgreave, organised by Jeremy Deller and sponsored by Artangel. The accompanying CD contains poetry and songs...

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  8. Still the Enemy Within (2014)

    Director
    Owen Gower
    Producer
    Owen Gower
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 mins), £12.49

    The film tells the story of the 1984-85 British miners’ strike. Thirty years on, this is the first-hand experience of those who lived through Britain’s longest strike. In 1984, a conservative government...

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  9. Which Side Are You on? (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Ken Loach
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 52 min.

    Documents aspects of the miners’ strike which began in March 1984, showing the ‘battle of Orgreave’ and the part played by the miners’ wives, the mass arrests of pickets and violence on the picket...

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  10. Miners’ Strike, The: Twenty Years on (2009)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government

    The Miners’ Strike arouses debate like few other contemporary political events. The 25th anniversary re-opened old divisions, with arguments still raging around the miners’ leadership, the motives of the...

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