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Free Party: A Folk History

Free Party: A Folk History

They wanted the freedom to party. The state saw them as the enemy within.

2023•1h 47m
DocumentaryMusic

The film follows the inception of the movement, a meeting between ravers and the new age travellers during Thatcher's last days in power, and the explosive years that followed, leading up the infamous Castlemorton free festival in 1992 - the largest ever illegal rave, which provoked the drastic change of the laws of trespass with the notorious introduction of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994.

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Production

Trinder Films (GB)

Language

EN

Status

Released

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Cast

Spiral Tribe

DiY

circus warp

Circus Normal

Free Party People

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