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Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation

Mike Newell

1983

  • Drama
  • TV Movie
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.

Cast & crew

  • Mike NewellDirector
  • Jim BroadbentGeoff Figg
  • Robert StephensVic Griffiths
  • Bruce MyersTwentyman
  • Richard ButlerMr Griff
  • Fred PearsonMr Hodgeson
  • Peggy Ann CliffordMiss Martlett
  • William HoylandMr James
  • Bruce PayneBarratt

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