5:27 that’s my great great grandfather Andreas Beck, played by Erik Bye.

I remember seeing it at the time, they made another one loosely based on the Houghton main disaster if I remember rightly, not sure if it was before or after.Not lived in the area for many a year. Just quality from the writer Barry Hines and the direction of Ken Loach, class.

Scruffy bastrds,them stupid haircuts only found in Yorkshire.I honestly think that they are one step in the prehistoric age.

PLANTING TREE WITH A HAT ON 😂

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1:17:04

Romancing the working class… silly and patronising. Excruciating

Prince charles once came to our local train station in yorkshire, our family owned the pub next to it and there were armed police officers in my bedroom . My mother made me go to bloody school 😂😂😂

The straight lines for the helipad queston---circle as well? Had me in absolute bits 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I lived in London for three years in mid 1970's and loved it. There wasn't the feeling of greed and materialism that followed as it became Americanised.

*The is The Last Thing on Earth I wanted to see*

Great drama, but had Loach's dream come about with a socialist state run by the likes of Ben, this country would have become just another totalitarian hellhole. We are far from perfect, but what communism brings is 100 times worse.

Imagine Men behaving like that today!.

This is good agitprop for the enemy (Soviets) in the Cold War of the time. Lots of inaccuracies. For instance, at 43:49 the bullying officer claims that a deserter "will be shot". Soldiers were only shot for desertion "in the face of the enemy". Despite the tensions, there were no enemies so no-one is going to be shot.

Loach gives a very distorted view of events. Great enemy agitprop at the time when we faced the threat of the socialist, totalitarian Soviet Union a few hundred miles away in East Germany.

This palaver still goes on to this day,always some horrible little kiss arse willing and able to lower themselves in order to please Management

Are they all BACKWARD IN YORKSHIRE,these people talk like 10 year olds is that normal.Seems to me Yorkshire need some fresh women introduced to the area seems like there’s been a lot of in breeding.

Wilfred Owen's poem Dulce et Decorum Est tells about the futility of going to war. The first world war was supposed to be the war to end all wars yet twenty years later the second world war started. Weapons of war are still being manufactured and being sold to create more wars. When will countries ever learn to live in peace with each other.

I couldn’t be more proud and thankful to these men the miners they risked their lives daily to heat and power the our homes buy mining coal ❤

how long after his were pits closed down

The room full of smoke😂

I may just be an ignorant southerner (Essex) but are some of these actors Yorkshire accent fake?

Absolutely fantastic TV and now what have we got? The great British bake off Strictly come dancing and I'm a celebrity get me out of here

Wounderfull England b 4 the dinghy invasion !

Ken Loach. Lauded for his uncompromising nature during his heyday. Vilified as a wokerist in this present unpleasant climate. Nothing less than honest in a way only us masses can understand and lauded as a film maker like no other. Hero.

5809, It's a Knockout is on TV with Stuart Hall and Eddy Waring so that means this was filmed on a Tuesday. There was hardly anything worth watching on Tuesday evenings. This was actually filmed in 76 the hot summer.

3434, he reminds of John Le Mesuria.

The Queen always thought the world smelt of fresh paint.

This was the golden years for miners. A fully trained face worker (most dangerous job) was earning up to £200 per week, more with overtime. Other miners between £120 and £170. A car worker could get £100 to £160 a week. The average wage was about £35 to £70 a week for 40 hours depending on the work. There was no minimum wage. Anything over 40 hours was time and a half. Bank holidays or Saturdays were double time, Xmas day and New year's eve were treble time.

11.20 "safeguarding mining industry for two million years" more like ten years.

So true, slightly shifted though... today some are more equal than others... Shameless politicians forcing woke WEF nonsense onto us.

Still brilliant! Sadly programmes like this aren't being made anymore, it'd be ruined with the ideology of wokeness that exists today.

Thank you for uploading this! Excellent mini-series. Best regards from a proud Norwegian. :)

Now I see why it's so realistic...bloody hell written by Barry (threads)Hines and ken (everything British thats great TV) loach...bloody hell talk about hard hitters...

Thought this was a real documentary until I see Seth armstrong..bloody well made

That's seth Armstrong at 40m ???

2:36 box marked WAGE PACKETS on window sill. 2:50 it's gone.

Fantastic, memorable ✌

Kathleen, so supremely played here by Susan Wooldridge, an actress otherwise entirely unknown as best as I can tell, as the great second-rate bully-as-artist, so certain of her stale, liberated virtues. Scott, timid and helpless, conventional to the bitter end - and it was very bitter in his case - hypnotised by her smug inanities. This a brilliant scene in a hugely under-rated series.

It's easy to do a post hoc rationalisation on this. Scott was a product of Navy rigidity and the times. But he was a very brave man as were the others. Amundsen was the scalpel whereas Scott was the sledgehammer. Scurvy was a big issue for the British but the realisation that they were second had a psychological effect that totally deflated them. Let's not condem any of them, we haven't walked in their boots. Their calorie intake was grossly insufficient. As I write this it's 16 days to the day that Captain Oates died. I think that he was the only realist in the British party. His legend is well deserved as is his legacy. Brains win over brawn every time. We will never see their likes again. Amundsen learned from the Inuit people. Wilson, Bowers and Evans were a liability for different reasons. It was and remains a tragedy. Avoidable but inevitable.

ASSHOLES

WANKER

Ken loach, a giant off social conscience film making.

Series ruined with bad british politics Era. Deleted the rest of episodes 👎👎

The village in the 2nd episode - Esh Winning- is where I lived from 6 months to almost 30 years old lol

After part 2 became too heavy for me to follow

The men at the pub were disgusting. Would they have liked that if she was their sister or daughters.

The way this 'historical' drama has ignored Tom Crean's contribution is criminal but is fairly reflective of the way British TV used to either ignore or misrepresent Irish people.