It’s Labor Day in the US, and a busy one for union strikes, but as I noted in today’s Loaded Question, massive industrial action is happening in the UK, too. Here’s a tasty tale from the last time the transatlantic zeitgeist fomented similar expressions of working-class solidarity in both nations. 2014’s Pride is set during the early-1980s miners’ strike (a sort of parallel to the 1981 air-traffic controllers strike in the US) and tells the true story of a small gay-and-lesbian organization in London who publicly supported miners in one badly impacted Welsh town. Pride bursts with happy-tears emotion about solidarity among groups of people with seemingly little in common, about overcoming bigotry, about the joy of finding new friends and new colleagues in the most unexpected of places. (Read my 2014 review.)
US: stream on Paramount+ (via Prime); buy at Prime; rent/buy at Apple TV
UK: stream on Disney+; rent on BFI Player; rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
See Pride at Letterboxd for more viewing options.
