A series of short labour movement documentaries
co-ordinated by Mark Metcalf, a member of the NUJ and Calderdale Trades Union
Council
As of 15th September 2025
Mark Metcalf - Fighting Talk short documentaries
@markmetcalf07 metcalfmc@outlook.com 07392
852561
Just Grow to Eat
Produced with Dave Hackney
Just Grow to Eat – for release on Wednesday 17th
September
Sunderland's Peterloo: Remembering the 1825 North Sands
Massacre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J_VXf_IIVs&t=40s 14 minutes
Bradford bus driver's journey - trade unionist Mohammad
Taj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltf0aXhdbOU&t=18s
24 minutes
Keith Laybourn - STITCHED UP - Bradford's textile unions
until 1926
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e58Hfhboes&t=56s 42 minutes
Andrew Feinstein on Gaza, Genocide and what it means for
the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNpv82dKVqs&t=3s
32 minutes
Andrew Feinstein - The Struggle for Democracy - Halifax
1842& South Africa 1948-1994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXW73WoRPG8&t=17s
20 minutes
Save Our GP surgeries says Calderdale TUC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osayP8a21so
Calderdale Council Cuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux8VIxFDiMk
The Labour Council has carried out massive cuts in local
services whilst refusing to organise residents to campaign for more funds to
reverse the cutbacks. 3 minutes.
Dentists set to bare teeth after 2024 General Election
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAqjsZj-Aj8&t=3s
17 minutes
Rescue Public Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9sJiizoeTY
2 minutes
Remember the Dead, Fight for the Living
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLyeMYnpVjo
How work can kill & why joining a trade union and
getting organised is the best form of self-defence. 2 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdcrdIlxs60
What happened to orphan children forced to leave Liverpool
in 1879 to work for nothing in Halifax? 5 minutes.
Andrew Watson Halifax's Black Footballing Pioneer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvYf6kZn_7A
A 2023 call for a plaque to be mounted at the Halifax school
that the first black football international attended in the late 19th century.
Two minutes.
In 2025 the plaque was unveiled by Viv Anderson, England’s
first black international player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOzfmAZn1M
3 minutes
Remembering Ellen Strange - Memorial Walk for Domestic
Violence Victims 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0_uhqtIuoI
Pay Up to Save The NHS -
The Junior Doctors Strike
https://youtu.be/AA23wwcQTjY 12 minutes
Halifax Chartist Hero Remembered: Benjamin Rushton
https://youtu.be/fp4mth4LfwY
14 minutes
Produced with Francesca Platt of Bolton Video Box
https://www.thevideobox.tv
‘Bread not Bayonets’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0UxMadnIEA
The dramatic story of Halifax in August 1842 when
local workers downed tools & joined a nationwide general strike for better
pay and extended voting rights. 32
minutes long
Betty Tebbs film set for release in October
Produced with Andy Trousdale
Keep Our NHS Public Leeds - 75 Years of The NHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2GVgLQVGDA
11 minutes
Ellen Strange – The Light That Sill Burns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPMaOEroepU 17 minutes
Produced with Adam Marseille
