Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain

📊 Series Specifications

Network Channel 4
Episode Runtime ~141 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 3
Original Language EN

Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain (2024)

⭐ Not Rated Yet 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 3 Episodes 🏷️ Documentary 📡 Returning Series
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Series Status:

Currently airing weekly on international broadcast networks.

Returning Series

Synopsis

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

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Community

The miners strike of 1984-85 wounded and re-shaped the nation and was bitterly divisive, nowhere more so than in one Derbyshire pit village, Shirebrook. A look at the events of the strike through the eyes of those directly involved

E2 Law and Order

New revelations about the bloodiest day of the strike, the 'Battle of Orgreave', and its aftermath for those who took part, featuring footage from the perspective of the miners which has never been broadcast before.

E3 Power

How millionaire businessman David Hart helped Thatcher's government defeat the strike by exploiting splits between striking and working miners in one key county - Nottinghamshire.