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Could not be more pertinent, even if its treatment is somewhat workmanlike and dry.
Full reviewDocumentary chonicling the Rock Against Racism (RAR) movement in 1970s UK. RAR was formed during a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation's youth, RAR's multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance.
Founder Red Saunders explains: "We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika". The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978's huge concert in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse, Tom Robinson and The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR's message to the masses.
LessCould not be more pertinent, even if its treatment is somewhat workmanlike and dry.
Full reviewIt's a cliché to describe a film as "essential viewing", but this really is.
Full reviewAn excellent brief documentary about a heroic grassroots political movement whose importance reveals itself more clearly in retrospect with every year that passes.
Full reviewEspecially compelling in its depiction of political organization in the analog age.
Full reviewIt dispenses with expositional voiceover and clocks in at a lean 80 mins. But all of that pales beside its central message.
Full reviewArriving with near perfect timing, White Riot is a powerful, persuasive look at a group of people who, rather than being superheroes, were simply “ordinary, anti-racist citizens”.
Full reviewWhite Riot is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Academy On Demand and AroVision.
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