The Luddites

  • Documentary
  • Drama
  • History
6/23/1988
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Storyline

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.

Director:
Richard Broad
    • industrial unrest
    • textile industry
    • period drama
    • political protest
    • protestors
    • georgian or regency era
    • economic inequality
    • luddites

    Cast

    • Steven Alvey
      Henry Smith
    • Ray Armstrong
      Militia Sargent
    • Dicken Ashworth
      William Thorpe
    • David Becalick
      George Meller
    • Jim Bywater
      William Cartwright
    • Charles Collingwood
      David Ricardo
    • Jeannie Crowther
      Mrs Armitage
    • David Fleeshman
      Enoch Taylor
    • Stephen Frost
      William Hinchcliffe
    • Peter Geeves
      Poor Law Officer
    • John Graham
      Edward Baines
    • Alexander John
      Narrator
    • Norman Mann
      Surgeon
    • Anthony Milner
      William Horsfall
    • Henry Moxon
      Home Secretary
    • Victoria O'Keefe
      Anne Bamforth

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