{"title": "'Rebellion': self-defence and the story of the Bradford 12", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/20th-century", "society/racism"], "description": "A film screening and discussion of 'Rebellion', a documentary about the Bradford 12. In 1981, twelve young Asian men in Bradford faced terrorism charges after making petrol bombs to defend their community from a racist skinhead attack; their trial sparked protests worldwide and ended in their acquittal, affirming the right to organised self-defence for oppressed communities. The film is by Migrant Media, co-directed by Tariq Mehmood, himself a defendant in the case, and filmmaker Ken Fero. The evening includes a discussion with the filmmakers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rebellion-self-defence-and-the-story-of-the-bradford-12-87879/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/rebellion-self-defence-and-story-bradford-12", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "War Inna Babylon: the community's struggle for truth and justice", "start": "2026-11-07T10:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00Z", "place": "Tottenham Green Leisure Centre", "address": "1 Philip Lane, Tottenham Green, N15 4JA, United Kingdom", "price": "Free event. Refreshments available.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/civil-rights-movement", "society/racism"], "description": "A free multimedia community presentation of the acclaimed War Inna Babylon project, tracing the struggle for truth, rights and justice from the landing of the Windrush in 1948 to today. It grew out of communities who refused to stay silent in the face of racism, police violence and injustice, and is a community-led effort to reclaim, preserve and teach Black British civil rights history. The event is organised by Tottenham Rights CIC, which is bringing the project back home to Tottenham. It considers how systemic racism manifests and impacts Black lives in the UK, through stories, archives and history of Black British resistance and community organising.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/war-inna-babylon-the-communitys-struggle-for-truth-and-justi-110914/", "official_url": "https://haringey.gov.uk/events/war-inna-babylon-communitys-struggle-truth-justice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5fd2b03fd17172f4019debf8cd942e7acd4a8db6538f6492857210977537c00d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Terrorists", "start": "2026-11-16T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Genesis Cinema", "address": "Mile End Road 93-95, E1 4UJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["history/politics/activism", "film/documentary"], "description": "A London preview screening of the documentary \"Terrorists\", followed by a Q&A with the directors. The film is a new documentary by Hazuan Hashim and Phil Maxwell that examines the history of direct action and protest leading up to recent UK legislation, featuring the Suffragettes, the 1920s Poplar Council, the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, the Miners' Strike, the Wapping Dispute and Palestine Solidarity movements. It features among others Lowkey, Audrey White, Ken Loach, Peter Kennard and Tony Benn, with contributors including Alan Hardman, David Rosenberg, Stephen Kapos, Tayo Aluko, Hannah from the Global Sumud Flotilla, ex-miner John Dunn and peace activist Kevin Donellon. Music is by Lola Perrin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/terrorists-36225/", "official_url": "https://genesiscinema.co.uk/event/115434", "image": "https://noky.io/images/303347e5389c682f0dad25a162d31a552f248472050be3eabf1ad30076d366f0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "DISCUSSION & FILM SCREENING: BLACK BRITONS, RACE, AND POLICING", "start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T20:30:00Z", "place": "Housmans", "address": "Caledonian Road 5, London", "price": "Sliding scale; free tickets available on request", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/racism"], "description": "An evening at Housmans pairing a screening of the documentary Blacks Britannica with the launch of Bisi Akintoye's new book, Black Britons, Race, and Policing: The Long Shadow. The 1978 film is a landmark documentary exploring racism, policing, immigration, employment and resistance in Black communities in Britain during the 1970s, built from interviews and contemporary footage. Bisi Akintoye's book draws on 58 interviews with young people, elders and community workers in a heavily policed North London neighbourhood to examine racialised policing, its everyday consequences and its legacies. Akintoye will be in conversation with Dr Remy-Paulin Twahirwa, who chairs the discussion, with drinks and snacks and copies of the book on sale.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/discussion-film-screening-black-britons-race-and-policing-41523/", "official_url": "https://housmans.com/event/panel-black-britons-race-and-policing/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ef6982334a51eb787fa1f3d8c6707d1446a47e421560b0796a7b0243e150eea-1200.webp"}, {"title": "We, The Hated", "start": "2026-11-06T18:20:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Genesis Cinema", "address": "Mile End Road 93-95, E1 4UJ London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/activism/climate", "film/documentary"], "description": "A screening of the documentary 'We, The Hated', followed by a question-and-answer session with its director Rich Felgate, moderated by Mary Mitchell, a PhD in Media Arts who leads the Green Party Councillors in Brent and represents Willesden Green as a ward councillor. The film follows a filmmaker whose girlfriend helps start Just Stop Oil, one of the most polarising protest movements in recent memory, and four activists—Indigo, Mark, Phoebe, and Jane—as they weigh the personal cost of action against the stakes of inaction while facing mounting repression. It asks how far ordinary people will go to stop oil drilling and how far the authorities will go to stop them. Felgate is a documentary filmmaker whose debut feature, 'Finite', won awards including the FIPADOC Impact Grand Prix; 'We, The Hated' premiered as the opening night film of Sheffield Doc Fest.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/we-the-hated-36996/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10232129", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d2f868e0388b40e9f56a2bcb09f485ea105e0d53ac4b8c730acd028eb5dca6ac-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Uprising", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "14.60", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "The Uprising is a film about the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, when ordinary people stood against the might of a kingdom. It was directed by Paul Greengrass, the director of Captain Phillips and Jason Bourne, and stars Andrew Garfield alongside Jamie Bell, Tom Hollander, Thomasin McKenzie, Stephen Dillane and Cosmo Jarvis. The film has earned four-star reviews from the FT and Empire Magazine. It is rated 15 and runs for 127 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-uprising-34648/", "official_url": "https://actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=492347", "image": "https://noky.io/images/40660a4f064f1909b3c40de04b3ecc275219e2675f32683ca4669080e5349aae-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Army of Lovers (or Revolt of the Perverts)", "start": "2026-11-18T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "price": "", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/queer"], "description": "A screening of Rosa von Praunheim's documentary, made over seven years (1972-79) about the work and goals of the queer emancipation movement in the US, especially in New York and San Francisco. It challenges the gay and lesbian community who were often still afraid to speak openly and shines a light on hardcore activism and pioneering voices. The film is presented by Pink Palace, a low-fi weekly queer film club in the cinema's basement bar, where each film is introduced by curator Andrew Woodyatt. It is part of 'Pink, Kitsch & Revolution: The Filmmaker and Activist Rosa von Praunheim', organised by Pink Palace / The Rio Cinema and the Goethe-Institut London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/army-of-lovers-or-revolt-of-the-perverts-38195/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "“Estate. A Reverie” Film Screenings & Talkaoke – part of Estate Talks", "start": "2026-11-14T15:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T18:30:00Z", "place": "Outside Haggerston Community Centre", "address": "8 Lovelace Street, London, E8 4FF", "price": "Free - Booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/housing"], "description": "The final event of the Estate Talks series brings film screenings and Talkaoke, a pop-up talk show by The People Speak, together at Haggerston Community Centre. It features the award-winning film 'Estate. A Reverie' (2015, 83 mins) by resident filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman, made with residents over seven years, interweaving intimate portraits, residents' historical re-enactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatised scenes to ask how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography. Also screened is 'Taking over King's Land' (2014, 23 mins) by Gillian McIver, following Nazir Tanbouli as he battles weather, vandalism and lack of funds to create a massive mural installation across a condemned housing estate in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics. The evening includes a free-flowing conversation around the Talkaoke table, with refreshments provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/estate-a-reverie-film-screenings-talkaoke-part-of-estate-tal-39535/", "official_url": "https://thepeoplespeak.org.uk/event/film-screenings-talkaoke-part-of-estate-talks/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ed5d15bcca3ae42ca1b5995bfc0f6e8dfd00147cc3502068b60943d1b51d117-2000.webp"}, {"title": "All White in Barking", "start": "2026-11-08T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Close-Up Film Centre", "address": "Sclater Street 97-99, E1 6HR London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "All White in Barking is a documentary screening followed by a Q&A with Marc Isaacs, moderated by Gareth Evans. The film probes the attitudes of Barking's white residents toward their new immigrant neighbours. Isaacs is an unseen but prominent presence, questioning prejudices and prying at preconceptions with remarkable results. It produces a vivid picture of the attitudes and perceptions at the heart of an increasingly multicultural Britain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/all-white-in-barking-35343/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}