Platform Films

19/08/2026

A JURY refused to convict eight of the Filton 25 today after more than 38 hours of deliberation.Madeleine Norman, Hannah Davidson, Teuta Hoxha, Ola Alexandra Herbich, Ian Sanders, William Plastow and Yulia Brigadirova were facing charges, including for criminal damage and violent disorder.The judge....

19/08/2026

FREE FILM SCREENING
THE GENERAL STRIKE - A Revolution Betrayed?

Presented by Bradford & Shipley Trades Union Council
& Platform Films
Saturday 29 August at 12 noon
at the Kirkgate Centre, 39A Kirkgate,

Shipley, BD18 ЗЕН
introduction and Q&A from lain Dalton, author of

'Prelude to the General Strike' and Judy Cox, co-author of

'Revisiting the General Strike: Where Workers were Ready to Dare'

For more information please contact [email protected]

12/08/2026

04/08/2026

NEW FILM: POLICE CRACKDOWN AGAIN ON PALESTINE ACTIVISTS
On Thursday 30 of July, outside Westminster Magistrates Court in central London, the British police arrested over 150 people with extraordinary speed. They claimed this was for supporting banned protest group Palestine Action – even though a judicial appeal over the banning of the group is now pending.

On Thursday 30 of July, outside Westminster Magistrates Court in ce...

06/05/2026

This is a film of the launch of a controversial new book, Killing Corbynism . Lessons for the future? Please share widely.

What part did Israel play in bringing down Jeremy Corbyn leader of the UK Labour Party? This film records the launch of the ground-breaking new book, “Killi...

18/04/2026

Trailer for Platform's new film: CHOMSKY AND EPSTEIN: A LOVE AFFAIR?
Why did left-wing icon Noam Chomsky fall for the corrupt pa******le Jeffrey Epstein? What led to an association which has shocked and horrified people across the world? This is an extract from CHOMSKY & EPSTEIN: A LOVE AFFAIR?, a unique 25 minute documentary in which Professor Chris Knight and author Jackie Walker highlight the factors which led to the birth of “two Noam Chomskys.” The film now can be delivered to you on memory stick or DVD or streamed to you via digital link, at a cost of £25. To order, and for details of how to pay, please email [email protected].

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11/04/2026

General Strike film in the Morning Star.

THIS recently (re)discovered film is a gem. Unfortunately, its provenance is unknown, at least to me. It clearly wasn’t produced for the 50th anniversary of the General Strike, but it might have been made to coincide with the 1972 miners’ strike since this was the first time since 1926 that Brit...

26/03/2026

Platform in the Canary.

The film provides a first-hand account of the General Strike and shows how close many of the strikers thought they came to a revolution.