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Ken Loach makes you spend 77 minutes with miners and somehow it's riveting.
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The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People (1977)

gritty kitchen-sinkworking-class slice-of-lifequietly radical

Overview

DramaTV Movie

The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit from Prince Charles.

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Standout Aspects

Direction

Loach's documentary-style realism makes fiction feel like stolen memory.

Writing

Dialogue so natural you'll swear you know these men.

Acting

Non-actor miners deliver performances no drama school could teach.

Best for:Solo: When you want to feel quietly furious about everything.·Rewatch: Catches more Loach details each time.
Heads up:Emotional: Working-class struggle presented without Hollywood redemption.·Triggers: Casual workplace misogyny of the era, unchallenged.
Ken Loach

Director

Ken Loach

ReleasedMar 29, 1977
Runtime1h 17m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Paceslow
Intensitymedium
Tonemixed
Feelheavy
BBC

Top Cast

Bobby Knutt

Bobby Knutt

Sid Storey

Rita May

Rita May

Kath Storey

Duggie Brown

Duggie Brown

Geoff Carter

Stan Richards

Stan Richards

Albert

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Cultural

Commissioned for ITV's 'Play for Today,' this launched Loach's decades-long excavation of British working-class life.

Insight

Part 2 aired the following week — same cast, same mine, but focused on a fatal accident, revealing Loach's structural cruelty: the same system that demands pageantry kills without ceremony.

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