Movie details

Riot(1999)

Name: Riot
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1999-01-01
Duration: 50 min
Rating: 10
Cast: Paul Barber

Documentary

Status: Released
Release date: 1999-01-01
Runtime: 50m
Rating: 10.0 / 10 (1 votes)
Original language: en
Certification: -
Budget: -
Revenue: -
Popularity: 2
Adult content: No

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Overview

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.