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10/04/2012 Documentary 1h 30m
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Overview

Margaret Thatcher - The Iron Lady is the first major documentary to look back on the development and impact of this remarkable woman, whom commentators of both the political left and right agree changed the face of 20th Century politics forever. Featuring many excerpts from her powerful speeches and insightful contributions from her political supporters and detractors, a portrait emerges of a woman whose strength of conviction eventually becomes the weakness of intransigence.

  1. Alan Byron

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Margaret Thatcher

    Herself

  2. Michael Brunson

    Self

  3. Gyles Brandreth

    Self

  4. Hugo Vickers

    Self

  5. Tony Benn

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-01-23
Told by way of retrospective interviews and actuality, this is quite an interesting chronology of the life, rise and fall of a woman who dominated the British, and to a certain extent the global, political stage during the 1980s. Sadly, like so many of these style documentaries, it is somewhat adulatory in it's delivery. We celebrate, rightly up to point, the achievements of a woman entering British politics in the 1950s and having to fight a series of battles just to get nominated for a ballot paper, let alone elected - her struggle with a sexist, nigh on misogynist environment where women we...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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