Free Party: A Folk History

"They wanted the freedom to party. The state saw them as the enemy within."

The film follows the inception of the movement, a meeting between ravers and the new age travellers during Thatcher's last days in power, and the explosive years that followed, leading up the infamous Castlemorton free festival in 1992 - the largest ever illegal rave, which provoked the drastic change of the laws of trespass with the notorious introduction of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994.

Loading countdown...
Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 18

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 18

1926

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 19

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 19

1925

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 20

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 20

1925

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 21

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 21

1925

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 22

1926

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 23

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 23

1927

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 24

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 24

1928

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 25

1927

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 26

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 26

1928

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 27

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 27

1928

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 28

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 28

1928

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 29

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 29

1927

The Journey: Mother Ocean

The Journey: Mother Ocean

2016

XV Beyond the Tryline

XV Beyond the Tryline

2016

Tanzania: A Journey Within

2014

God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance

God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance

1968

The Cowboy's Flute

The Cowboy's Flute

1963

Women's Quarter

Women's Quarter

1966

Women's Prison

Women's Prison

1965

Tehran Is the Capital of Iran

Tehran Is the Capital of Iran

1966