Brian Glover meets up with locals like Arthur Scargill as he guides us round his home town.

Combines footage of the 100th Durham Miner's Gala held in 1983, with extracts from a miners' weekend school held two months later, to raise the...

Part of BFI collection "The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes."

Part of BFI collection "The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes."

Twenty years ago, Britain went to war - with itself. In March 1984, Mrs Thatcher's government announced plans to close 20 coal mines, with the loss...

It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With...

A look at the 1985 Snooker World Championship final when Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor battled past midnight as over 18 million people watched on...

On the 5th of March 1985, a crowd gathered in a South Yorkshire pit village to watch a sight none of them had seen in a year. The villagers, many of...

This film sketches a very personal and decidedly political portrait of the Iron Lady who left the greatest mark on the UK, alongside Queen Elizabeth...

The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to walk out and the last to go back to work during the miners' strike.

The Battle of Orgreave, recounted by those who lived through it, is contextualised through the history of the British mining union and a government...

This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other...

An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.

The Cook Report was a British current affairs television programme shown on ITV, produced for the network by Central Television from 1987 to 1998.

World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for...

Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.

Various public figures submit themselves to questioning from a teenage audience.

Weekend World was a British television political series, made by London Weekend Television and broadcast from 1972 to 1988. Created by John Birt not...

Current affairs programme broadcasting in the late 70s / early 80s

A Stab In The Dark was a British television programme of topical monologues and discussion screened on Channel 4 in 1992. It was hosted by comedian...

British current affairs series with Dermot Murnaghan tackling a different issue at home or abroad each week.

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and...

The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.

Tory! Tory! Tory! is a 2006 BBC television documentary series on the history of the people and ideas that formed Thatcherism told through the eyes of...

1950s period drama based on the true story of a housewife and mother whose life is turned upside down by a handsome Polish man at her local dance...

The irresistible rise and dramatic downfall of Margaret Thatcher. Her inner circle reveal how a political outsider won power and dominated British...

When society is broken and demands for social justice go unmet, some folks don't give up, they rise up.

Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley...

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