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Film · 1999
Riot
50mDirected by John Akomfrah
- Documentary
John Akomfrah’s seminal Riot traces the riots in Liverpool during July 1981 in a climate of economic recession under Thatcher’s regime. Akomfrah captures this turning point in Britain’s struggle towards multicultural democracy through interviews revealing the ghettoisation and racial abuse in Toxteth that escalated with stop-and-search policing tactics following the “sus” laws.
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Cast
Paul BarberNarrator
Details
- Director
- John Akomfrah
- Writer
- Edward George
- Cinematography
- Dewald Aukema
- Editor
- Nick Follows
- Producer
- David Lawson, Lina Gopaul
- Release
- January 1, 1999
- Runtime
- 50m
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Smoking Dog Films, Channel 4 Television
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