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Strike: An Uncivil War (15)
Directed by Daniel Gordon
JUST days after the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Orgreave, the most violent confrontation between miners and police during the 1984-85 miners’ strike, comes a hard-hitting documentary which sheds new light on the Thatcher government’s involvement in both.
On June 18 1984 thousands of miners picketing the Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield were confronted by around 6,000 police, many armed with short shields and batons and others on horseback, who charged the miners, brutally beating them up.
The official narrative was that the police had been pelted with a non-stop barrage of missiles by the pickets before taking action. The chilling film footage shot by the media and the police themselves demonstrate that this was a flagrant lie.
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ANGUS REID speaks to Daniel Gordon about his new film Strike - an uncivil war
