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A film re-examining the political events surrounding the arrest of 24 Shrewsbury building workers and the imprisonment of three of them, six months after the successful 1972 building workers’ strike. The...
These six short films, released for the first time, are a crucial document of a cataclysmic episode of British history 25 years ago. A testament to solidarity and activism, the Miners’ Campaign Tapes...
Three-part documentary looking at the life and death of epileptic Mark Faulkner, found dead on the pedestrian underpass at London’s Charing Cross Station in Jan 2000.
Exposes the history of the remote labour camps for the unemployed which were set up and run by successive British governments between 1929 and 1939. David Colledge, a Leeds social historian, acts as the...
A series of five programmes offering an alternative socialist history of Britain in the 20th century. Part 1: looks at how the Labour Party developed at a time when the British Empire was still strong. It...
Relates the history of politics in Northern Ireland from 1969-1983. It dismisses the notion that what is happening is a problem of law and order or a religious war; it sees the issues as unmistakably...
Cinema Action documentary filmed over five years showing the impact on one family living in a South Wales valley community of developments in the national and global political economy which result in local...
About the events which took place on the Clyde in 1971 when ‘The Guardian’ disclosed the contents of a secret Tory Party document, as a result of which the four Scottish ship-building yards began a...
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...
A campaign film supporting the dockers’ fight against redundancy and wage cuts caused by containerisation. The film charts the struggle against ruthless rationalisation, profiteering and land speculation,...
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