Arthur Scargill

Acting

Arthur Scargill

Born

1938-01-11 (88)

Place of birth

Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist. He was President of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1982 to 2002. Joining the NUM at the age of nineteen in 1957, he became one of its leading activists in the late 1960s.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2000s · 2 titles

Series credits

Panorama poster
6.3

Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.

Panorama

1953

Question Time poster
5.9

This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.

Question Time

1979

World in Action poster
7.0

World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.

World in Action

1963

Dispatches poster
6.5

An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.

Dispatches

1987

Timeshift poster
7.0

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.

Timeshift

2002

Sherwood poster
6.9

Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey.

Sherwood

2022

The Cook Report poster
7.0

The Cook Report was a British current affairs television programme shown on ITV, produced for the network by Central Television from 1987 to 1998.

The Cook Report

1987

Weekend World poster
NR

Weekend World was a British television political series, made by London Weekend Television and broadcast from 1972 to 1988. Created by John Birt not long after he moved to LWT, the series was broadcast on the ITV network at lunchtimes on Sundays. Produced by Nick Elliott and David Elstein, it began by mirroring CBS's "60 Minutes" featuring several stories each week but gradually devolved into a show that featured a forensic interview with a major political figure each week. It was presented by Peter Jay initially when first broadcast in 1972, but was best-remembered for being anchored by former Labour MP Brian Walden between 1977 and 1986. Conservative MP Matthew Parris took over in 1986, resigning his seat, and presented the programme until the series ended in 1988.

Weekend World

1972

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NR

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I've Got A Secret

1984

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British current affairs series with Dermot Murnaghan tackling a different issue at home or abroad each week.

The Big Story

1993

D'après une histoire vraie poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

D'après une histoire vraie

2021

A Passionate Woman poster
5.9

1950s period drama based on the true story of a housewife and mother whose life is turned upside down by a handsome Polish man at her local dance hall.

A Passionate Woman

2010

TV Eye poster
NR

Current affairs programme broadcasting in the late 70s / early 80s

TV Eye

1978

Thatcher: A Very British Revolution poster
7.0

The irresistible rise and dramatic downfall of Margaret Thatcher. Her inner circle reveal how a political outsider won power and dominated British life through a turbulent decade.

Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

2019

Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain poster
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Forty years after, through the eyes of those directly involved, this powerful series explores the bitterly divisive strike that wounded the soul of the nation

Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain

2024

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When society is broken and demands for social justice go unmet, some folks don't give up, they rise up.

Rise Up: Protests that Changed the World

2020

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A Week in Politics

1983

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A Stab In The Dark was a British television programme of topical monologues and discussion screened on Channel 4 in 1992. It was hosted by comedian David Baddiel, journalist, future Conservative MP and schools secretary Michael Gove and critic and television presenter Tracey MacLeod. The monologues, often containing very dark humour, were delivered straight to camera by each host in turn before a small studio audience on a stark set with numerous staircases. Sometimes relevant guests were invited on to further or contradict a point, including Conservative MPs Jerry Hayes and Alan Clark. One of the more memorable routines was Baddiel’s contention, in opposition to contemporary feminist orthodoxy, that the word "cunt" should be reclaimed as a term of abuse, and no longer be used to refer to female genitalia. His task was made harder by the fact that the producers would not allow him to say the word itself.

A Stab in the Dark

1992

Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy poster
8.0

The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.

Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

2002

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Various public figures submit themselves to questioning from a teenage audience.

Open To Question

1984

Tory! Tory! Tory! poster
NR

Tory! Tory! Tory! is a 2006 BBC television documentary series on the history of the people and ideas that formed Thatcherism told through the eyes of those on the New Right. It was nominated for the best Historical Documentary at the Grierson Awards in 2006.

Tory! Tory! Tory!

2006