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    Handsworth Songs

    Handsworth Songs

    1986

    1:01:12

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    5.5/10 (10)

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    Handsworth Songs

    Genre

    Documentary

    Plot

    The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving archival photographs, newsreel clips, and home movie footage, the film is both an exploration of documentary aesthetics and a broad meditation social and cultural oppression through Britain’s intertwined narratives of racism and economic decline.

    Director

    John Akomfrah

    Writers

    N/A

    Stars

    Pervaiz Khan, Meera Syal, Yvonne Weekes,