The Luddites

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.

Documentary Drama History

Steven Alvey

(Henry Smith)

Ray Armstrong

(Militia Sargent)

Dicken Ashworth

(William Thorpe)

David Becalick

(George Meller)

Jim Bywater

(William Cartwright)

Charles Collingwood

(David Ricardo)

Jeannie Crowther

(Mrs Armitage)

David Fleeshman

(Enoch Taylor)

Stephen Frost

(William Hinchcliffe)

Peter Geeves

(Poor Law Officer)

John Graham

(Edward Baines)

Alexander John

(Narrator)

Norman Mann

(Surgeon)

Anthony Milner

(William Horsfall)

Henry Moxon

(Home Secretary)

Victoria O'Keefe

(Anne Bamforth)

Stephen Petcher

(Ben Walker)

Neil Phillips

(John Bamforth)

Joanna Phillips-Lane

(Mary Bamforth)

John Ringham

(Joseph Radcliffe)

Allan Surtees

(John Baines)

Raymond Witch

(Prison Chaplin)