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The Luddites (1988)
51 minDocumentaryDramaHistory
In 1812 there were violent disturbances in Yorkshire when new machines were introduced into the wool industry. This film is an interpretation of those events made in the style of a documentary.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Richard Broad
Cast
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Steven Alvey
Henry Smith
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Ray Armstrong
Militia Sargent
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Dicken Ashworth
William Thorpe
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David Becalick
George Meller
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Jim Bywater
William Cartwright
Charles Collingwood
David Ricardo
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Jeannie Crowther
Mrs Armitage
David Fleeshman
Enoch Taylor
Stephen Frost
William Hinchcliffe
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Peter Geeves
Poor Law Officer
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John Graham
Edward Baines
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Alexander John
Narrator
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Norman Mann
Surgeon
Anthony Milner
William Horsfall
Keywords
Style:period drama
Plot:industrial unresttextile industrypolitical protestprotestorsgeorgian or regency eraeconomic inequalityluddites
