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Miner's Campaign Tapes

certificate PG Certificate
1984 (DVD 30 Nov 09)
Colour
UK
Subtitles: Optional English, for the hearing-impaired
Published/distributed by BFI
ISBN/EAN: 5035673008478
Ratio 1.33:1 Runtime 92 mins
Region 2
Price: £9.98
(Including VAT at 20%)
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Miner's Campaign Tapes 
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Fight. Organise.

In 1984 a group of independent film and video makers decided to show their support for the miners' strike
using the tools they had available: their cameras. On the picket lines, at the marches and in the soup kitchens, they recorded the testimonies of the striking miners, their wives and supporters, in a fight against anti-strike propaganda dominating the mainstream media.

A testament to solidarity and activism, the tapes tackle issues which continue to occupy us today: the right to
demonstrate, police tactics, political double-speak, the role of the media. They are a crucial document of a
cataclysmic episode of British history.

1 Not Just Tea and Sandwiches
2 The Coal Board's Butchery
3 Solidarity
4 Straight Speaking
5 The Lie Machine
6 Only Doing Their Job?

Extras
* llustrated booklet with essays by Chris Reeves, in which he discusses the making and distribution of the Tapes, and by Professor Julian Petley, author of Media Hits the Pits: the Media and the Coal Dispute (1984) and contributor to Shafted: the Media, the Miners' Strike and the Aftermath (2009).
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