A Life at the Mill

A Life at the Mill — Plot

A video portrait of eleven mill workers, past and present, living in and around the Derwent Valley, Derbyshire. The film details the important role that work played in their lives, how it felt; to clean a mill, to work all your life, to face retirement, to shut a mill down and make hundreds unemployed and the hole that was left behind.

• Release date
• January 1, 2009
• Runtime
• 50 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Jeanie Finlay