The Battle of Orgreave documents, by means of an hour-long film and an accompanying archive, an actual, very violent conflict which took place during the 1984-5 miners’ strike, at the height of the Thatcher government’s campaign to quash trade union power. As a young person in his final year at school, Deller witnessed the original confrontation on TV. It began in a field near the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire and culminated in a cavalry charge by mounted police through the village. For Deller, the image of thousands of striking miners being pursued by riot police had the appearance of a war scene rather than a labour dispute. Co-commissioned by Artangel and Channel 4, The Artangel Collection, directed by Mike Figgis