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  1. Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets (2011)

    Subject
    Law; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Available on BetaSP/DVcam videotape

    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...

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  2. Miners’ Campaign Tapes, The (2009)

    Subject
    History; Media studies; Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £9.74

    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...

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  3. People’s Flag, The (5 Parts) (1987)

    Director
    Chris Reeves
    Producer
    Lin Solomon
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 300 minutes), £60.00

    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...

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  4. Cause of Ireland, The (1983)

    Director
    Chris Reeves
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 0 PAL, 104 minutes), £20.00

    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...

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  5. So That You Can Live (1981)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 85 minutes), £8.00

    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...

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  6. Class Struggle: Film from the Clyde (1977)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 83 minutes), £20.00

    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...

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  7. 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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  8. Arise Ye Workers - The Dockers’ Fight (1973)

    Subject
    Film studies; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £8.00

    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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  9. Fighting the Bill (1970)

    Subject
    History; Law; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 36 minutes), £8.00

    A campaign against the 1970-1974 Conservative government’s Industrial Relations Bill. The case against the Bill is put by shop stewards Mike Cooley and Dick Jones from DATA, May Hobbs from the T&GWU, Don...

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  10. Squatters (1969)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 18 minutes), £8.00

    A campaign film made by Cinema Action supporting squatters in various London boroughs resisting eviction by private landlords and the GLC.

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