Behind the Rent Strike (1979)

Name: Behind the Rent Strike
Director: Nick Broomfield
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1979-10-24
Duration: 50 min
Cast: Ethel Singleton

50m

Documentary

Directed by Nick Broomfield Starring Ethel Singleton

Release Date 24 Oct 1979

About Behind the Rent Strike Movie

Released in 1979, Behind the Rent Strike is a Documentary Movie. Direction is by Nick Broomfield. Key performances come from Ethel Singleton. A film documenting the various political and social aspects of the fourteen month long rent strike undertaken by tenants on the Tower Hill Estate in Kirkby, on the outskirts of Liverpool, which commenced in 1972 in protest against increases in council house rents resulting from the Housing Finance Act.