movie poster for DOCKERS

Flicks ID

10217

Cert

15

Running time

135 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

DOCKERS (1999)

BILL ANDERSON

Plot

In 1996 the Workers' Educational Association set up classes for sacked Liverpool dock workers in order to help them set down the history of their battle. Channel 4 decided to commission a work on the event and so began a three year process, involving both Jimmy McGovern and Irvine Welsh, in a labour of love by the Dockers that saw their work becoming a film in the summer of 1999. Dockers is a fascinating story, in both the history it tells and its realisation.