Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain

Name: Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain
Released: 2024-01-25

January 25, 2024

1 Season • 3 Episodes

Returning Series

Documentary

Overview

Forty years after, through the eyes of those directly involved, this powerful series explores the bitterly divisive strike that wounded the soul of the nation

Episodes

1. Community

January 25, 2024 • 47m

The year-long strike was bitterly divisive, nowhere more so than in one Derbyshire pit village - Shirebrook.

2. Law and Order

February 1, 2024 • 47m

The story of the Battle of Orgreave: the bloodiest episode in the year-long strike. Including footage that reveals the startling nature of some of the policing that day.

3. Power

February 8, 2024 • 47m

The story of how businessman David Hart helped Thatcher's government finally defeat the strike - waging a propaganda war and exploiting splits among Nottinghamshire miners

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