The Battle of Orgreave is the story of the extraordinary re-enactment, conceived by Jeremy Deller, of the violent confrontation between striking miners and police outside a coking plant at Orgreave in 1984. Deller's collaboration with event organiser Howard Giles includes interviews with some of the 800 re-enactors and local participants involved in Deller's event as well as film of the recreation of the climactic clash of the bitter miners' strike. In 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers went on strike and on June 18, 1984 one of the strike's most violent confrontations began in a field near the plant and culminated in a cavalry charge through the village of Orgreave.

Year: 2001
Country of Origin: UK
Medium: Installation

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