The Spirit of '45 (2013)
- Directed by
- Ken Loach
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 25 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary uses archive footage and interviews to tell the story of post-war Britain under Clement Attlee's Labour government. It celebrates the creation of the welfare state, the National Health Service, and nationalized industries, while also showing how these achievements were later dismantled.
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What happens
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. Relying primarily on archive footage and interviews, and without a narrative voiceover, the film recounts the endemic poverty in prewar Britain, the sense of optimism that followed victory in World War II and the subsequent expansion of the welfare state, founding of the National Health Service and nationalisation of significant parts of the UK's economy. The film documents the extent to which these achievements, as Loach sees them, have since been subject to attack in the decades that followed, particularly under the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. Loach said that the model for the film was "oral history, with pictures". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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