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Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist. He was President of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1982 to 2002. Joining the NUM at the age of nineteen in 1957, he became one of its leading activists in the late 1960s.
Total trailers found: 10
11 October 1976
Brian Glover meets up with locals like Arthur Scargill as he guides us round his home town.
28 September 2003
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.
01 January 1983
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 central issues that were of concern to the mineworkers' union during the lead up to the national strike of 1984.
31 May 2021
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.
01 September 2022
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 II.
04 May 2010
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 television.
24 March 2024
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.
24 January 2003
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 of 20,000 jobs.
02 January 1984
Part of BFI collection "The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes."
02 January 1984
Part of BFI collection "The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes."
