Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain

Name: Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain
Released: 2024-01-25T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary

The miners' strike of 1984 to 1985 opened a great wound in the soul of the nation. It divided communities, and re-shaped the country. A look at the events of the strike through the eyes of those directly involved on the front line, on all sides.

2024 · 46m

Director Tom Barrow

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

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.
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

18 June 1984 saw the bloodiest single day of the strike: the Battle of Orgreave. With new revelations about the day and its aftermath, we explore the lasting consequences for law and order in the UK because of how the strike was policed.
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

The story of how one man, millionaire Tory supporter David Hart, worked behind the scenes to help the Thatcher government defeat the strike by exploiting divisions between working and striking miners in one key county, Nottinghamshire.