DocumentaryDramaHistory
The Luddites
Release1988→
Runtime0H 51M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased
Synopsis
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.
Principal Cast8
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
Media1
Posters
Director
Richard Broad
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Keywords
industrial unresttextile industryperiod dramapolitical protestprotestorsgeorgian or regency eraeconomic inequalityluddites
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Countries:United Kingdom
Production:Thames Television