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Riot (1999)
Directed by John Akomfrah
Documentary · 50m
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.
Cast
Paul Barber
Crew
- Director
- John Akomfrah
- Writer
- Edward George
- Director of Photography
- Dewald Aukema
- Editor
- Nick Follows
- Producer
- David Lawson, Lina Gopaul
Details
- Release date
- 1999-01-01
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Smoking Dog Films, Channel 4 Television