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				Windrush			


			

				
Windrush


				

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							IMDb tt3605642
						
										1998										Documentary				


				
Windrush is a 4-part series of one hour television documentaries originally broadcast on BBC2 in 1998 to mark the 50th anniversary of the arrival in Britain of the Empire Windrush, the ship which brought the first wave of post-war West Indian immigrants.

				

									

						
Cast

						

															

																		Lenny Henry
								

															

																		Doreen Lawrence
								

															

																		Valerie Amos
								

															

																		Diane Abbott
								

															

																		Paul Boateng
								

															

																		Jazzie B
								

															

																		Patrick Robinson
								

															

																		Ulric Cross
								

													

					

							

		


					

				

	

		
Episodes							4
					

			


	

				
			

									Arrival
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				Arrival
				58m				This part follows the initial warm reception, the growing sense of rejection and isolation, and the first flash…			

		
				
			

									Intolerance
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				Intolerance
				59m				The 1959 Notting Hill riots saw the murder of Kelso Cochrane, the first acknowledged racial killing in Britain.…			

		
				
			

									A New Generation
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				A New Generation
				59m				Focusing on the education of black children, their search for an identity through their music and lifestyle, and…			

		
				
			

									A British Story
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				A British Story
				59m				The 1990s saw the emergence of a new black British identity, with black peers in the House of…