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The Spirit of '45 is a 2013 documentary film by British director Ken Loach, focused on and celebrating the radical changes in post-war Britain under the Labour government of Clement Attlee, which came to power in 1945.
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Mar 15, 2013 · The Spirit of '45: Directed by Ken Loach. With Eileen Thompson, Julian Tudor Hart, Dai Walters, Sam Watts. A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.
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Mar 17, 2023 · Ken Loach's "The Spirit of '45," a documentary about the reinvention of British social services after World War II, explores a part of history that textbooks usually prefer to skip or distort because it contradicts messaging that government and taxes are the "real problems" in life and if people are suffering, it's their fault.
Feb 8, 2013 · The Spirit of '45 hopes to illuminate and celebrate a period of unprecedented community spirit in the UK, the impact of which endured for many years and which may yet be rediscovered today...
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Mar 16, 2023 · A documentary from Ken Loach sees the end of World War II as a brief moment of possibility for socialism in Britain. In “The Spirit of ’45,” the film’s central idea is that Britain had ...
The Spirit of '45 2013 1h 39m Documentary History Drama List 67% Tomatometer 27 Reviews 65% Audience Score 100+ Ratings Filmmaker Ken Loach traces the history of Britain's welfare state after...
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Endemic poverty and Dickensian squalor (children sleeping five to a vermin-infested bed, with only cereal to eat) are upended by Clement Attlee’s 1945 Labour Party landslide over the patrician Winston Churchill. What follows is the nationalization of the mines, railways, and postal service.
