Episodes

1. Community

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

2. Law and Order

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. Power

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

Overview

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

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