Riot

Name: Riot
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1999
Duration: 50 min
Rating: 10

1999 · 50 min

Documentary

★ 10.0

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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.

Crew

Director John Akomfrah
Writer Edward George
Director of Photography Dewald Aukema

Cast

Paul Barber
Narrator

Crew

Director — John Akomfrah
Writer — Edward George
Director of Photography — Dewald Aukema

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