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Free Party: A Folk History
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Free Party: A Folk History

Oct 28, 2023
1h 47m
★ 0.0

They wanted the freedom to party. The state saw them as the enemy within.

Overview

The film follows the inception of the movement, a meeting between ravers and the new age travellers during Thatcher's last days in power, and the explosive years that followed, leading up the infamous Castlemorton free festival in 1992 - the largest ever illegal rave, which provoked the drastic change of the laws of trespass with the notorious introduction of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994.

Genres

Documentary
Music

Production Companies

Trinder Films (GB)

Cast

Spiral Tribe

Spiral Tribe

DiY

DiY

circus warp

circus warp

Circus Normal

Circus Normal

Free Party People

Free Party People

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