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  • Channel 4

Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain

  • 2024
  • Returning Series
  • Documentary
  • ~2h 21m / ep
  • 1 season

Forty years after, through the eyes of those directly involved, this powerful series explores the bitterly divisive strike that wounded the soul of the nation

Latest: Season 1 · 2024

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  1. E1. Community

    Jan 25, 2024 · 47m

    The year-long strike was bitterly divisive, nowhere more so than in one Derbyshire pit village - Shirebrook.

  2. E2. Law and Order

    Feb 1, 2024 · 47m

    The story of the Battle of Orgreave: the bloodiest episode in the year-long strike. Including footage that reveals the startling nature of some of the policing that day.

  3. E3. Power

    Feb 8, 2024 · 47m

    The story of how businessman David Hart helped Thatcher's government finally defeat the strike - waging a propaganda war and exploiting splits among Nottinghamshire miners

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