Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain
7.9
2024
Documentary
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
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January. 25,2024
The year-long strike was bitterly divisive, nowhere more so than in one Derbyshire pit village - Shirebrook.
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