What if the workers didn't just strike—they seized the means of production? Ken Loach's radical 'what if' still burns.
After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves.
Direction
Loach's documentary-style immediacy before he had a signature.
Acting
Non-professional dockers delivering devastating authenticity.
Production
Shot on location in Liverpool docks—can't fake that grit.
Director
Ken Loach
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the legendary 'Wednesday Play' slot that revolutionized British TV drama—this was primetime political education.
Nearly all copies were destroyed; the surviving version is a 16mm black-and-white rescue job. Loach himself thought it was lost forever.
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