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)

Free Party: A Folk History Trailers

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Cast

Spiral Tribe

DiY

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Circus Normal

Free Party People

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Free Party: A Folk History

Overview

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Free Party: A Folk History Trailers