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General Strike Declared

Date released

18 Apr 1921

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

764

NoS ID

081876

Story no

1 / 1

Extras

1 film clip

Delegates hurriedly leave Unity House for country with their instructions to carry out Triple Alliance’s fateful decision. At Merthyr strikers beat police in football match in aid of Miners Fund. At...

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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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Labour conference - Arthur Scargill on miners strike (1984)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on a speech by NUM President Arthur Scargill at a fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool (with excerpts) where he refuses to condemn the miners’ strike violence and calls for...

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Danish Underground Revolt

Date released

9 Nov 1944

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

44/90

NoS ID

100536

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

For four and a half years the Danes have been fighting their war of resistance against German occupation, using their most effective weapon - sabotage. Factories working for the enemy are burnt to the...

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Before the Monsoon (3 Parts) (1979 Video)

Director

Michael Grigsby

Producer

Karin Magid

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 51, 53, 37 min.

Part 3: in March 1977, after the end of the state of emergency, the Congress Party was defeated in the elections and the Janata Party came to power. Migrant labourers conclude that nothing has changed for them.

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Sydney Dock Strike

Date released

23 Jul 1959

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1572A

NoS ID

023133

Story no

4 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sydney Dock Strike. DESCRIPTION: This was the worst affair of its kind ever seen in Sydney’s docks: the story of an Italian liner and the battle of Sydney waterfront. In sympathy with...

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NIPSY

Date released

Oct 1952

Series name

Mining Review 6th Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

345761

Story no

3 / 3

BFI synopsis: a traditional miners’ game in Hemingfield, South Yorkshire, in which a small hardwood billet is hit with a piece of wood - a player is allowed six attempts and the longest distance the billet...

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Miners strike - Arthur Scargill declares action official (1984)

Genre

Speech

Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers, has attended an executive meeting at the NUM headquarters in Sheffield. He says the NEC condemn the announcement of further pit and plant...

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25th anniversary of Castro’s victory over Batista (1984)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report (from Havana) on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Cuban President Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz coming to power by overthrowing President Fulgencio Batista. Trainee pharmacist Oscar Alcalde was there at...

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Great Events of the 20th Century (1999 Video)

aka: Greatest Events of the 20th Century, The

Subject

History

Distribution

DVD

A collection of newsfilm covering 101 newsworthy events of the 20th century. Items are: 1) Opening credits; 2) Queen Victoria’s funeral; 3) Wright brothers’ first flight; 4) Suffragette dies under...

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