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This Is England is a 2006 British drama film written and directed by Shane Meadows. [1]

99 relations: Andrew Shim, Antisocial personality disorder, Bingham, Nottinghamshire, British Board of Film Classification, British Independent Film Awards, Britpop, Cannabis (drug), Chanel Cresswell, Channel 4, Clayhill, Come On Eileen, Danny Cohen (cinematographer), David M. Thompson, Derbyshire, Dexys Midnight Runners, Dialect, Drama (film and television), Edward Elgar, Empire (film magazine), English nationalism, Falklands War, Far-right politics, Film4 Productions, Flag of England, Frank Harper, Gillies MacKinnon, Gravenhurst (band), Grimsby, Jack O'Connell (actor), Jazz fusion, Jimmy Cliff, Jo Hartley, Joe Gilgun, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Lenton, Nottingham, Long Eaton, Los Angeles Times, Louie Louie, Ludovico Einaudi, Metacritic, Michael Socha, National Front (UK), New wave music, Newsweek, Nottingham, Penske Media Corporation, Percy Sledge, Perry Benson, Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want, Pomp and Circumstance Marches, ..., Pressure Drop (song), Racism, RAF Newton, Reggae, Return of Django (song), Rock music, Rosamund Hanson, Rotten Tomatoes, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sequel, Shane Meadows, Sight & Sound, Since Yesterday, Ska, Skinhead, Soft Cell, Soul music, St Ann's, Nottingham, Stephen Graham, Strawberry Switchblade, StudioCanal UK, Subculture, Tainted Love, The Cimarons, The Dark End of the Street, The Guardian, The Independent, The Meadows, Nottingham, The Midlands, The Oregonian, The Smiths, The Specials, The Upsetters, This Is England '86, This Is England '88, This Is England '90, Thomas Turgoose, Toots and the Maytals, U.K. Subs, Variety (magazine), Vicky McClure, Warp Films, West Indies, White nationalism, White supremacy, Wilsthorpe Community School, 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, 54-46 That's My Number, 61st British Academy Film Awards. Expand index (49 more) »

Andrew Shim

Andrew Shim (born 18 August 1983 in Miami, Florida) is an American-born English actor best known for his appearances in the films and TV shows of Shane Meadows, especially This Is England (2006-15).

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Antisocial personality disorder

Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD or APD) is a personality disorder characterized by a long term pattern of disregard for, or violation of, the rights of others.

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Bingham, Nottinghamshire

Bingham is a market town in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England, nine miles (14.5 km) east of Nottingham and 11.7 miles (18.8 km) south-west of Newark-on-Trent.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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British Independent Film Awards

The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) is an organisation that celebrates, supports and promotes British independent cinema and filmmaking talent in United Kingdom.

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Britpop

Britpop is a UK based music and culture movement in the mid 1990s which emphasised "Britishness", and produced brighter, catchier alternative rock, partly in reaction to the popularity of the darker lyrical themes of the US-led grunge music, an alternative rock genre, and to the UK's own shoegazing music scene.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant intended for medical or recreational use.

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Chanel Cresswell

Chanel Cresswell (born 23 January 1990) is an English BAFTA award-winning actress, best known for playing Kelly Jenkins in the film This is England (2006) and the three subsequent series This is England '86 (2010), This is England '88 (2011) and This is England '90 (2015).

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Clayhill

Clayhill was a British three-piece folk band comprising Ali Friend, Ted Barnes and vocalist Gavin Clark.

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Come On Eileen

"Come On Eileen" is a song by English group Dexys Midnight Runners (credited to Dexys Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express), released in the United Kingdom on 25 June 1982 as a single from their album Too-Rye-Ay.

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Danny Cohen (cinematographer)

Danny Cohen is an English cinematographer.

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David M. Thompson

David Marcus Thompson (born 18 July 1950 in Hackney, London) is a British film and television producer.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.

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Dexys Midnight Runners

Dexys Midnight Runners (currently officially Dexys, their former nickname, styled without an apostrophe) are an English pop band with soul influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid-1980s.

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Dialect

The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.

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Empire (film magazine)

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media of Hamburg based Bauer Media Group.

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English nationalism

English nationalism is the nationalism that asserts that the English are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of English people.

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Falklands War

The Falklands War (Guerra de las Malvinas), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, Malvinas War, South Atlantic Conflict, and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur (Spanish for "South Atlantic War"), was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands, and its territorial dependency, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Far-right politics

Far-right politics are politics further on the right of the left-right spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of more extreme nationalist, and nativist ideologies, as well as authoritarian tendencies.

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Film4 Productions

Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Flag of England

The flag of England is derived from St George's Cross (heraldic blazon: Argent, a cross gules).

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Frank Harper

Frank Harper (born 12 December 1962) is an English actor and film producer.

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Gillies MacKinnon

Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948, Glasgow) is a Scottish film director, writer and painter.

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Gravenhurst (band)

Gravenhurst was the musical pseudonym of the English singer-songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and journalist Nicholas John Talbot (14 May 1977 – 2 December 2014).

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Grimsby

Grimsby, also known as Great Grimsby, is a large coastal English town and seaport in North East Lincolnshire, of which it is the administrative centre.

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Jack O'Connell (actor)

Jack O'Connell (born 1 August 1990) is an English actor.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jimmy Cliff

James Chambers, OM (1 April 1948), known professionally as Jimmy Cliff, is a Jamaican ska and reggae musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and actor.

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Jo Hartley

Joanne Victoria Hartley is an English actress born in Oldham, Lancashire who has appeared on television in This is England and Not Safe For Work, alongside Emily Blunt in The Young Victoria (2009), and with Taron Egerton and Hugh Jackman in the biographical sports comedy film Eddie the Eagle in 2016.

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Joe Gilgun

Joseph William Gilgun (born 9 March 1984) is an English actor known for several roles, including that of Eli Dingle in ITV's Emmerdale, Woody in the film and TV spin-offs This Is England (2006–15), and Rudy Wade in E4's Misfits.

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Lee "Scratch" Perry

Lee "Scratch" Perry OD (born Rainford Hugh Perry; 20 March 1936) is a Jamaican music producer and inventor noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style.

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Lenton, Nottingham

Lenton is an area of the City of Nottingham, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England.

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Long Eaton

Long Eaton is a town in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Louie Louie

"Louie Louie" is an American rhythm and blues song written by Richard Berry in 1955 and best known for the 1963 hit version by The Kingsmen.

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Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI (born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Michael Socha

Michael Robert Socha (born 13 December 1987) is an English actor, known for his roles in the films This Is England and Summer, and the television series This Is England '86, '88, '90, Being Human, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and the BBC Three miniseries Our World War.

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National Front (UK)

The National Front (NF) is a racist far-right and fascist political party in the United Kingdom.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.

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Penske Media Corporation

Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American digital media, publishing, and information services company founded in 2003.

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Percy Sledge

Percy Tyrone Sledge (November 25, 1940 – April 14, 2015) was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer.

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Perry Benson

Perry Benson (born 9 April 1961, London) is an English character actor best known for his regular roles in British television sitcoms You Rang, M'Lord? (1988–93), Oh, Doctor Beeching! (1995–97) and Operation Good Guys (1997–2000).

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Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want

"Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths.

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Pomp and Circumstance Marches

The Pomp and Circumstance Marches (full title Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches), Op. 39, are a series of marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar.

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Pressure Drop (song)

"Pressure Drop" is a song recorded in 1969 by the Maytals for producer Leslie Kong.

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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RAF Newton

Royal Air Force station Newton or more simply RAF Newton is a former Royal Air Force station located east of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and south west of Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England It was used briefly as a bomber base for squadrons to re-equip after the Battle of France and then as a flying training school during the Second World War and beyond until 2000.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Return of Django (song)

"Return of Django" is a 1969 instrumental by the Upsetters.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rosamund Hanson

Rosamund Abigail Hanson (born 24 September 1989) is an English film and television actress who played the role of Michelle ("Smell") in the 2006 film This Is England and its television sequels This Is England '86, This Is England '88 and This Is England '90.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), based in London, was formed by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1946.

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Sequel

A sequel is a literature, film, theatre, television, music or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work.

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Shane Meadows

Shane Meadows (born 26 December 1972) is an English filmmaker of independent film.

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Sight & Sound

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).

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Since Yesterday

"Since Yesterday" is a synth-pop song performed by Scottish female duo Strawberry Switchblade, the lead single from their self-titled album.

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Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

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Skinhead

The skinhead subculture originated among working class youths in London, England in the 1960s and soon spread to other parts of the United Kingdom, with a second working class skinhead movement emerging worldwide in the 1980s.

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Soft Cell

Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s, consisting of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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St Ann's, Nottingham

St Ann's is a large district of the city of Nottingham, in the English ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire.

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Stephen Graham

Stephen Graham (born 3 August 1973) is an English film and television actor, known for his roles as Tommy in the film Snatch (2000), Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne in This Is England (2006) as well as its television sequels, This Is England '86 (2010), This Is England '88 (2011) and This Is England '90 (2015), notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson in Public Enemies (2009), Scrum in the Pirates of the Caribbean films and Al Capone in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire.

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Strawberry Switchblade

Strawberry Switchblade were a Scottish female new wave duo formed in Glasgow in 1981 by Jill Bryson and Rose McDowall, best known for their song "Since Yesterday" from 1985, and their flamboyant clothing with bows and polka-dots.

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StudioCanal UK

StudioCanal UK (formerly Optimum Releasing) is the official branch of StudioCanal in both the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Subculture

A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.

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Tainted Love

"Tainted Love" is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of American group the Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964.

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The Cimarons

The Cimarons are a UK reggae band formed in 1967.

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The Dark End of the Street

"The Dark End of the Street" is a 1967 soul song written by songwriters Dan Penn and Chips Moman and first recorded by James Carr.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Meadows, Nottingham

The Meadows is an area of Nottingham, England located south of city centre, close to the River Trent and connected to West Bridgford in the Borough of Rushcliffe by Trent Bridge and the Wilford Suspension Bridge.

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The Midlands

The Midlands is a cultural and geographic area roughly spanning central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia.

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The Oregonian

The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications.

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The Smiths

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982.

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The Specials

The Specials, also known as The Special AKA, are an English 2 Tone and ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry.

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The Upsetters

The Upsetters was the name given to the house band for Jamaican reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry.

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This Is England '86

This Is England '86 is a 2010 British drama miniseries written by Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne, a spin-off from the 2006 film This Is England.

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This Is England '88

This Is England '88 is a 2011 British drama miniseries written by Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne as a spin-off from the 2006 film This Is England.

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This Is England '90

This Is England '90 is a 2015 British TV drama miniseries written by Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne and produced by Warp Films.

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Thomas Turgoose

Thomas Aiden Turgoose (born 11 February 1992) is an English actor, best known for his role as Shaun Fields in the film This Is England (2006), a role he reprises in the This Is England TV series This Is England '86 (2010), This Is England '88 (2011) and This Is England '90 (2015).

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Toots and the Maytals

Toots and the Maytals, originally called The Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group and one of the best known ska and rocksteady vocal groups.

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U.K. Subs

The U.K. Subs are an English punk band, among the earliest in the first wave of British punk.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Vicky McClure

Vicky Lee McClure (born 8 May 1983) is a BAFTA award winning English actress best known for her role as Lol Jenkins in Shane Meadows’s film This is England (2006) and its Channel 4 spin-off mini-series’ This is England '86 (2010), This Is England '88 (2011) and This Is England '90 (2015).

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Warp Films

Warp Films is an independent film and television production company based in Sheffield & London, UK, with a further affiliated company Warp Films Australia based in Melbourne, Australia.

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West Indies

The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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White nationalism

White nationalism is a type of nationalism or pan-nationalism which holds the belief that white people are a raceHeidi Beirich and Kevin Hicks.

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White supremacy

White supremacy or white supremacism is a racist ideology based upon the belief that white people are superior in many ways to people of other races and that therefore white people should be dominant over other races.

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Wilsthorpe Community School

Wilsthorpe Community School accessed November 17, 2009 is a secondary comprehensive school, in Long Eaton, Derbyshire.

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2006 Toronto International Film Festival

The 31st Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 7 to September 16, 2006.

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54-46 That's My Number

"54-46 (That's My Number)" is a song by Fred "Toots" Hibbert, recorded by Toots & the Maytals and originally released on the Beverly's label in Jamaica and the Pyramid label in the UK.

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61st British Academy Film Awards

The 61st British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 10 February 2008 and honoured the best films of 2007.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_England

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