Riot
- Documentary
John Akomfrah’s seminal Riot traces the riots in Liverpool during July 1981 in a climate of economic recession under Thatcher’s regime. Akomfrah captures this turning point in Britain’s struggle towards multicultural democracy through interviews revealing the ghettoisation and racial abuse in Toxteth that escalated with stop-and-search policing tactics following the “sus” laws.
- Directed by
- John Akomfrah
- Written by
- Edward George
Cast
- Paul Barber
Becoming Wind
Handsworth Songs
Four Nocturnes
Precarity
Mnemosyne