Ballarat Film Society – White Riot

In late 1970s Britain, fascists and racists were gaining ground, extending their influence across popular culture.

This film documents a vital London protest movement established in response. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, during a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation’s youth, RAR’s multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance.

‘An excellent documentary about a heroic grassroots political movement whose importance reveals itself more clearly in retrospect with every year that passes’. (The Guardian)

Roadshow.
White Riot, UK, 2019, 81 min.
Director: Rubika Shah.