Behind the Rent Strike

1h
Documentary
6.6

Kirby, on the outskirts of Liverpool, England, October 1972. A chronicle of the fourteen-month strike by thousands of tenants to protest against the £1 increase in council house rents due to the Housing Finance Act.

Cast

Nick Broomfield
Self (voice)
Ethel Singleton
Self

Crew

Nick Broomfield
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
Tony Gurin
Sound Mixer
Tony Dutton
Sound
Philip Jones Griffiths
Sound
Graham Berry
Sound

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