

Birth of a Nation
1983-06-19 · 79 min · ★ 7.8
A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
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- Directors
- Mike Newell
- Production companies
- ITV Central
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Status
- Released
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Jim BroadbentGeoff Figg
Robert StephensVic Griffiths
Bruce MyersTwentyman
Richard ButlerMr Griff
Fred PearsonMr Hodgeson
William HoylandMr James
Bruce PayneBarratt
Ray MortWhittaker
Suzanna HamiltonAlison Cooper
Kay StonhamMiss Denton
Jesse BirdsallBarry
Julia DeakinDeputy Headmistress Grunsell
Kwame Kwei-ArmahPaul (as Ian Roberts)
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