
In 1812 there were violent disturbances in Yorkshire when new machines were introduced into the wool industry. This film is an interpretation of those events made in the style of a documentary.

as Henry Smith

as Militia Sargent

as William Thorpe

as George Meller

as William Cartwright

as David Ricardo

as Mrs Armitage

as Enoch Taylor

as William Hinchcliffe

as Poor Law Officer

as Edward Baines

as Narrator

as Surgeon

as William Horsfall

as Home Secretary

as Anne Bamforth

as Ben Walker

as John Bamforth

as Mary Bamforth

as Joseph Radcliffe

as John Baines

as Prison Chaplin