I agree with another reviewer here, it would have been nice to get some other perspectives, especially the police, perhaps even the Coal Board members that worked in the strike years. Perhaps even members of Thatchers government that were involved in those 84/85 strike years.
This is a good documentary, no doubt about it, but remember that it's a completely uncritical retrospective on the 1984-1985 miners' strike in Britain, one which is unabashedly sympathetic to the coal miners alone. Did Margaret Thatcher smash the coal mines for ideological reasons?
A vital documentary for these desperate times in our mixed up country."Still the Enemy Within" is not for the faint hearted as it may have you snarling at the screen with anger, but it's a well made and timely piece with a core rightly centred around the men and woman who were at the centre of the 1984 strikes - predominantly the miners themselves.
