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Breaking Point – The Sus Law Controversy (1978)
Directed by Menelik Shabazz
Documentary · 38m
The use of an old Victorian law of ‘being a suspicious person’ commonly known as ‘sus’ was used against young black peoplein the mid 70’s in the UK. Interviews include Rudy Narrayan, Stuart Hall and Paul Boeteng. Breaking Point is the first documentary directed by a black director for mainstream British Television.
Cast
Stuart Hall
Crew
- Director
- Menelik Shabazz
Details
- Release date
- 1978-01-01
- Runtime
- 38m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom