The Spirit of '45

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Movie Info

Filmmaker Ken Loach traces the history of Britain's welfare state after World War II.

Genre:

documentary, drama, history
Original Language:

English (United Kingdom)
Director:

Ken Loach
Producer:

Rebecca O'Brien, Kate Ogborn, Lisa Marie Russo
Writer:

Ken Loach
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 17, 2017
Runtime:

1h 39m

Cast & Crew

Tony Benn

Tony Mulhearn

Ken Loach
Director

Ken Loach
Writer

Katherine Butler
Executive Producer

Lizzie Francke
Executive Producer

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Critic Reviews for The Spirit of '45

All Critics (22) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (5)

That The Spirit of '45 survives its simplifications is due to the sincerity and urgency of Loach's argument. And, regrettably, to its pertinence.

October 3, 2017 | Full Review…

Ryan Gilbey
New Statesman
What could be, and largely is, a load of old lefties banging on about the wonders of golden age socialism, is also very much intended as a rallying call to action before the last vestiges of state ownership are tossed to the capitalists.

September 1, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Metro (UK)
The veteran director Ken Loach hoists the red flag with The Spirit of '45, a polemical documentary filled with hope and heroism, which takes a look at the resurrection of Britain after the war.

March 20, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Kate Muir
Times (UK)
Using eloquent archive footage and contemporary interviews not exactly representative of the other side of the argument, Loach hammers his points home one by one.

March 15, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Derek Malcolm
London Evening Standard
This film reminds us that admiring the health service has become a distinctively patriotic virtue.

March 14, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
The film ends up as a tale told by an ideologue, full of sound and fury, of question-begging certitudes and the siege engines of self-righteousness.

March 14, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
A shame that Loach's latest has all the political sophistication of a students' union protest... As it stands, it's a respectable but flawed portrait of national endurance.

February 12, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Craig Williams
CineVue
A fond postcard from Ken Loach from the era when British socialism with a democratic spirit gripped the nation in a post-war embrace. His sense of cinema serves him well and he knows how to elicit emotions with the various tools at his disposal

November 30, 2013 | Full Review…

Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile
A thin, misleading and sentimental account of history, and how we got from there to here.

March 17, 2013 | Full Review…

Philip French
Observer (UK)
A thought-provoking history lesson.

March 15, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Allan Hunter
Daily Express (UK)
This is not so much a documentary as a barking mad Marxist fantasy.

March 14, 2013 | Rating: 0/5 | Full Review…

Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail (UK)
The equivalent of your grandad lecturing you about how things aren't like they used to be.

March 14, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Alex Zane
The Sun (UK)

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