The Luddites

Duration: 51 min

Release date: 1988-06-23

IMDB

In 1812 there were violent disturbances in Yorkshire when new machines were introduced into the wool industry. This film is an interpretation of those events made in the style of a documentary.

Documentary Drama History

The Luddites

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as Militia Sargent

Dicken Ashworth

Dicken Ashworth

as William Thorpe

as George Meller

as William Cartwright

Charles Collingwood

Charles Collingwood

as David Ricardo

Jeannie Crowther

Jeannie Crowther

as Mrs Armitage

David Fleeshman

David Fleeshman

as Enoch Taylor

as William Hinchcliffe

as Poor Law Officer

as Edward Baines

as William Horsfall

as Home Secretary

Victoria O'Keefe

Victoria O'Keefe

as Anne Bamforth

Stephen Petcher

Stephen Petcher

as John Bamforth

Joanna Phillips-Lane

Joanna Phillips-Lane

as Mary Bamforth

as Joseph Radcliffe

as Prison Chaplin

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