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McLibel (2005)
Directed by Franny Armstrong, Ken Loach
“The Postman and Gardener Who Took on McDonald's, and Won.”
Documentary · 1h 25m
A deep dive into the historic 1997–2005 libel lawsuit, wherein fast-food conglomerate McDonald's sued environmental activists Helen Steel and David Morris over a critical factsheet. It became the longest trial in English legal history and a major free-speech PR disaster for the corporation.
Cast
H
Helen Steel
Self
D
Dave Morris
Self
Bruce Alexander
Richard Rampton QC
Pip Donaghy
David Walker
I
Ian Flintoff
David Green
Oliver Ford Davies
Dr. Arnott
Richard Hope
Judge
William Hope
Guardian Newspaper Representative
L
Linda McGuire
Today Newspaper Representative
Nick Miles
Channel 4 Representative
Fred Pearson
Sid Nicholson
Malcolm Tierney
Ed Oakley
Crew
- Director
- Franny Armstrong, Ken Loach
- Director of Photography
- Franny Armstrong, Peter Armstrong, Neve Cunningham, Mick Duffield
- Original Music Composer
- Chris Brierley, Alfie Thomas, Johny Brown, Guy Jackson, Luminous Frenzy, Band of Holy Joy, The Playthings
- Editor
- David G. Hill, Gregers Sall
- Producer
- Franny Armstrong
Details
- Release date
- 2005-05-20
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Journeyman Films Ltd.
- Box office
- $7,234