• Director(s)

    Daniel Gordon

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    18/06/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    111m

  • Cast

    na

Film

Strike: An Uncivil War

very strong language

This impassioned UK documentary concerning the confrontation between the government and striking miners in the early 1980s contains stark scenes of real violence accompanied by verbal abuse, as well as harrowing testimonies.…

This impassioned UK documentary concerning the confrontation between the government and striking miners in the early 1980s contains stark scenes of real violence accompanied by verbal abuse, as well as harrowing testimonies.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

language

drugs

injury detail

nudity

theme

threat and horror

sex

  • Director(s)

    Daniel Gordon

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    18/06/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    111m

  • Cast

    na

very strong language
Classified Date:
13/06/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Tull Stories
violence
Scenes of real violence include those in which people are beaten with truncheons. Some of these scenes are accompanied by blood in the aftermath on bodies. People throw stones at police officers who retaliate by chasing them and in which mounted police charge through picket lines. Many sequences are also accompanied by a build- up of threat in scenes in which striking miners confront lines of police officers. There are also scenes in which pickets shout aggressively at people returning to work, and in which these people are called 'scabs'.
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t'), as well as strong language ('f**k'), implied strong language ('eff'), rude hand gestures, and milder terms ('bloody', 'bastard', 'shit', 'bugger', 'piss', 'God', 'hell', 'Christ', 'damn').
drugs
There are verbal reference to drug misuse following the loss of employment in mining communities. A person talks about his own drug misuse and alcoholism after his life fell apart following the collapse of the miners' strike.
injury detail
Following violent confrontations, there is occasional sight of blood on heads and bodies. There is also brief sight of wound detail and scarring.
nudity
There is brief natural nudity in a scene set in a miners' communal shower room.
theme
Men recall miners being crushed to death and losing fingers in mining accidents. There are verbal references to mental health, including to depression. In some scenes, traumatised interviewees break down and cry.
suicide and self-harm
There are verbal references to people who took their own lives, and to one person who intended to take his own life.
brief references to violence
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Tull Stories
violence
An interviewee talks about how striking miners were the victims of violence at the hands of the police.
There is also infrequent very mild bad language ('damn').
Classified Date:
31/05/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Tull Stories

  • Classified date

    13/06/2024

  • Language

    English