Free Party: A Folk History
They wanted the freedom to party. The state saw them as the enemy within.
2023 · 1h 45m · N/A Documentary, Music
Overview
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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