In 1812 there were violent disturbances in Yorkshire when new machines were introduced into the wool industry. This film is an interpretation of those events made in the style of a documentary.
Henry Smith
Militia Sargent
William Thorpe
George Meller
William Cartwright
David Ricardo
Mrs Armitage
Enoch Taylor
William Hinchcliffe
Poor Law Officer
Edward Baines
Narrator
Surgeon
William Horsfall
Home Secretary
Anne Bamforth
Ben Walker
John Bamforth
Mary Bamforth
Joseph Radcliffe
John Baines
Prison Chaplin
